They fed me Twinkies for breakfast
left me with crazy babysitters
who blew smudge on my face,
sat me in front of cartoons and soap operas
to suck on my dirty, ratty blanket,
drove broken down cars full of trash,
stuck me ½ naked in the sand box,
slapped long/gone mom makeup on my face
Then, Dad’s girlfriend & her red Teddy lingerie,
country songs on the radio
Stuffy, stinky, stained, brown carpets
Brother’s porno magazines in the bathroom
Ku Klux Kan neighbors down the street
Dysfunctional dog Toto w/mangy hair
Clothes that made me look like a boy
Waiting for dad to come home from three jobs
Little dolly to tell my troubles to