second grade and you were a big boy now. your daddy told you never to do dirty work yourself. always get someone else to do it for you. the girls came and flicked at my hair, said my eyebrows were too thick and my skin too dark. (my mother was always complaining i was too pale.)
they called me a 'paki'. did daddy teach you that word, too ?
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cinnamon thighs and daddy boys • poetry
Poetrylets burn the world with our toxic love
