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life 2 min read 327 views Feb 3, 2017

324 Level Road

addendum to title: College
ville, Pennsylvania 19426
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Exposure therapy to confront
reality that home of boyhood,
adolescence, andwhen I out
stretched the Scottish tartan 
Harris Tweed welcome matt
frustrated parents vitriol un
leashed tough-love, smacked
regularly quasi planned threatened
ultimatums venomous witches 
x2c yawping against my brand 
of falling out of their good graces, 
though hatching escape merely fanned
actions to hightail to bedroom,
a secure space, not exceptionally
grandyet despite the rapacious
and relentless rage against the
sole son, who hand did lee man
age to incite the wrath of me papa
and late mama, this parcel of land
namely 324 level road, Collegeville, 
Penna, 19426 found yours truly
to withstand invisible onslaught
of slingshot barbs, cuz of fear to
rely on self, which solo endeavor
did demand belief, confidence and
faith in innate survival skills, hence
countless admonitions recurred from
those who begat their only male heir,
provoking predictable panned da moan
he hum in tandem with concomitant
wickedness akin to eland caught in
cross hairs getting pistol-whipped 
with many barking explicit derogatory
gerund expletives, that did not dislodge
this immobile body electric defying logic,
now in retrospect clueless why I
suffered to withstand incessant verbal,
venal, and n’er vampire weak kind blows 
inexplicable, how this soulful, ruminating, 
and tortured walking wounded blithely
weathered turpitude, though devoid of
sense and sensibility, how no man iz an
island, though at times incontinent,
where jocund this bard for’er opened 
Pandora’s box, but hindsight softened
cleft pride and prejudice wheeat bull
dozed site of once grand “Glen Elm”
tears me up insidefading memories
refreshed, via priceless gift from be
loved younger sister unwittingly mitigated
hammer blows of pain to confront
the void,  whence away from obliterated
complex edifice grief felt damned!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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