PARTING GLASS (Troubled & Homeless)

Parting Glass (The troubled and homeless)

Joan’s oldest child
assaulted with
a meat cleaver,
talk about knifes…

Mary Beth, her son
hung himself, and
Joes plastered day
and night…

Ann is kicked from
time to time,
dragged by her roots
swept across the floor…

Agnes picks up
all the broken glass –
while Mama shakes
between an open door...

Randy, aborts a child
who sucks its thumb,
moved outside,

starving inside a
cardboard
box – next to her
shopping cart,
a child’s crib…

yesterdays love
swept down open
drains

Tomorrow, in the oven...
a love child
Mama’s heartbreak,
Papa’s dishrag.

The hand that cut a
cord… slowly kills a
child. A life, a mere
parting glass of dreams…

Nancy Duci Denofio
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