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1948: THE WORST YEAR IN MY LIFE

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

Mahatma Gandhi is assassinted
I know nothing of that
Jews and Arabs fighting heavily
as immigration increases
State of Israel comes into existence
I was ten years old
I had prepared to defend Mom since birth
I planned each punch that would bring him
down to my size he was a giant
Jersey Joe Walcott retreats for barrage
of punches from Joe Louis a 11Th round knockout
The neighbor boy 18 saw Mom walking in the rain
She refused but he insisted he take her home
My father was beating Mom in a drunk rage
Claiming he was her boyfriend
I stepped forward, "Why don't you try a man?"
On occasions I woke up Mom crying over me
In an ambulance she covered in bandages I fell into a coma
I assume my Father was taken to jail
For the first time Mom followed through on her divorce
She sent all of us into hiding but I had school
I lived with a different family and a different district
I had no idea where Mom or my sister were
I started having nightmares at first just a lady
Snakes would flow from he head and when the light
was on disappear but then even with the light on
they would be all over the bed and my Aunt called for Mom
Twice a week I was taken to this man's office
He would ask me questioned and I was told I was hypnotized
I learned later I must have seen the lady Medusa
But what he told Mom what I was seeing was not snakes
But the blood rushing from Mom's head when she was
dragged by the hair and thrown head first into an iron stove
I knew the next time I would not fight fair
I entered smokers lying about my age and fighting men
That was the last time I saw my father until a teenager
North Korea made into a republic I served in South Korea
The last thing I ever wanted to be was in the medical field
1949 China communists occupy Peking you are brothers
We all come from the Womb of the same Mother--get along people







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