'You father only hits you, because he
loves you.'
With eyes swollen nearly closed,
I look at my sainted mother
and thought;
'Let him love you, not me!
I don't need a Mike Tyson like father!
Next thing ya know, this wacko, is gonna
bite my ear off! '
© Joe Fazio
(brief renderings) Joe Fazio
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/444-hard-love/
