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Farther than father can be

Farther than father can be

 

Don’t call him my father

I don’t have one

Never want one!

Takes more than your indiscretion

Poor judgement

Lack of backbone

Your desolation of hope

To name ‘that’ my father

How could you?

Why would you?

Fathers are a fairy tale

A sick joke

Alive in books

The stuff ‘dreams’ are made of

Delusions, illusions

Like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy

Why are  kids made the butt of adult jokes?

Where was your dad when you needed him?

Where was your dad when your mum was broke?

Where was my dad when I had grazed knees

And needed carrying shoulder high

Above school yard bullying?

They’re a fallacy

A phallic fallacy

Male dogma

Obese patriarchy stifling the life breath

From a slender, purposeful matriarchy

Heard the fairytale about the prodigious

Everywhere,  everyday hero?

The bread winner

The loyal husband

The doting father

The rock, family man

I saw the fist and knew it was all but a scam

Don’t call him my father

Takes more than empty posturing to be the ‘Y’

In my chromosomes

 

◄ I just want a dog!

CAD Education for Leisure censored! ►

Comments

<Deleted User> (5466)

Mon 1st Sep 2008 14:00

Tremendous energy and momentum...feel the escalation and detalied irony of this steady subversion of 'fatherly' stereotypes. Powerful sense of the voice and the pain and anger fuse most effectively.
Love the way the poem softens at end. real sadness and disappointment despite the rage.
Scalpel like dissection!!!

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Moira

Sun 31st Aug 2008 21:43

Thanks Louise, pleased and sad that there's some resonance..not just the ravings of the angry! Angry can be good.

Love the pic and tuned into your writing. LOVE IT! The commuters..can feel it and the stifling company 'think.' Really enjoyed the power of the word blends.

regards,
Moira

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Louise Fazackerley

Sun 31st Aug 2008 20:21

you could have read my mind when you wrote that. i like a good angry poem. thanks for posting :)

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