WHEN I GOT HOME
I took a hot shower,
hot enough
to burn the skin off my body,
he said.
Couldn’t kiss your mother,
couldn’t kiss you boys
good night.
Just lay naked
in the scummy bathtub,
the cold porcelain keeping me from sleep
from nightmares.
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WHEN I GOT HOME
I took a hot shower,
hot enough
to burn the skin off my body,
he said.
Couldn’t kiss your mother,
couldn’t kiss you boys
good night.
Just lay naked
in the scummy bathtub,
the cold porcelain keeping me from sleep
from nightmares.