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From one latchkey kid to another HODL (nprofile…q7fq)

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Day #3, poem a day:

With every hair cut I see more grey fall than the last.
And while she talks in my ear my mind thinks on the past.
Will he be there when the bus pulls up?
Rusted out car and booze in his cup?
He fell asleep again, car running, in the driveway, today.
Hoping to see me get home and run away.
I know, I know, you were out looking for work,
I’d check your odometer, but your job’s on your breath
You stink, you’re drunk, you’re worthless, you jerk.

And yet, you came to my games, you cheered, and encouraged me
In between fights, you made my mother laugh, in the morning, soberly.

You destroyed yourself and the good in you, and we paid the cost.
In any case, I’ve heard it said ‘nothing lasts but nothing is lost’

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