What i didn't know Daddy was all the world of pain and beer. I know you drank every night just to slam the lid on your mental sandbox.
The carnival of crazy that lingered just beyond your front door was a lapsed Catholic's Purgatory.
You know about Purgatory, I know you do. The Dantesque living room. I insinuate decorum here, the bedroom stale with fetid odors. Cigarettes and the unwashed once a redheaded beauty.
My legs ache as yours did. No rest anyway. Before research. Before the salve of pills to calm the crawling kicking.
I never knew Daddy that my nightly misery was portraiture to your pose.
You never asked me. Never said you needed help. I blamed it on the sleeplessness of a soprano screaming