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Rated: E · Poetry · Family · #1821419
Drawn from true life.
a measure of happiness


he only once
saw his father

cry

on edge
of an easy chair
put mussed head in calloused hands
quaking
broke

a wooden rule
by luck
shouted bad black mad

and he bittered

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