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Re: The Last Slice

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by: NancyGene - Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:09 UTC

On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 1:56:46 AM UTC, driveby wrote:
> The Last Slice
>
> You could tell when he was drunk,
> doing the cha cha while waiting
> for the toast to pop, then cursing
> the empty butter holder, as if butter
> owed him a last spread.
>
> Eventually, the music in his head would stop
> but not the cha cha of verbal abuse
> as we scampered waiting for his growl
> to become a snore.
>
> Then our tiptoe began, wondering how
> his heaving chest didn't explode
> carrying all that anger.
>
> We survived, gathering at the tombstone,
> when, finally, he found nothing to scream about,
> not even butter.

For a Canuckian Father, but there was no music in that House--only screams.