he saved his drunken outbursts for my mom
one night I considered bashing
in his skull with a hammer
I left home after high school
not to go on a mission but to escape him
after I got married, he got in to AA
got his 25 year pin
25 years of sobriety
then 26, 27, 28
I held his hand on his death bed
slowly we'd become friends over the decades
he was a dry drunk for a
long time but eventually mellowed
he even wrote some nice stuff about
me, my wife, our kids
I haven't written about
his abuse until now, but with
your story as a prompt, Chad
today I have started
