Daddy says join the football team. Daddy says answer me when he talks. Daddy says be the best. Daddy says be a man. ||| But I wish not to be a footballer. Or any kind of sportsman. I wish to write. I wish to read. ||| As much as I long for the words. The ones that form in my head. They cannot be spoken. They cannot be heard. ||| Being the best is what I want. Yet it is so hard if you know not what the best is. I am not the best. I am never the best. ||| How am I to be a man if no-one will show me what a man is. My father is a strange man, one who beats his son. My father is not a man. My father is not a man. |||