Psychopaths Are Unaffected By Punishment
Dear Dad
Now that you are dead
I thought it time to have a chat
That chat
You know, the one that ends with
you owning up
Dear Dad
Your words of apology
I dreamt last night or some other week
Are refused
It’s too easy to say them
You’re not forgiven
Dear Dad
The trauma you delivered like a postman
Far outweighed the life I had
When I escaped the brunt of your torment
It was sublimely peaceful
Once you’d gone
Dear Dad
In Australia the colours are green and red and black
It’s the gum trees and the kookaburras
Only natives
which flourish, which truly belong
and live well here
Dear Dad
I’m hoping that purgatory is for left footers
Who fall off the rails
Claiming atheism doesn’t count
Once you’ve been baptised a catholic
Hopefully, there’s no escape
Dear Dad
Now that you are dead
the words of apology and
the trauma you delivered like a postman
removed me from belonging anywhere
So I changed my scenery, got me a new landscape
Dear Dad
In your absence, I took up Taoism,
got me a new passport,
rented a post box and started recording
every conversation I have.
Thanks