Napkins: Rare Poetry and Prose Archives, 1995-2004 by Steve Dustcircle - HTML preview

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Charity Change (undated)

 

Alone, she sits in misery

Broken, torn, she invites company

All by herself she can't deal with the pain

Of being mistreated and abused again

 

White-knuckled she beats the furniture

Begging for release in an overture

 

Bored, she smokes another

Sold, auctioned by her fucking mother

She can't figure out what she's doing wrong

It's like lyrics out of a tearful song

 

At the age of nine, she was aged ten years

Her tender young face shows lines of tears

 

Crammed, a lifetime into seventeen

Damned, another bottle empty

There are dried blood stains on her tattered clothes

The only way from here is up, she knows

 

Helpless, hopeless, must find a way out

Her shattered-dream frown silently shouts