Jeff Connelly Poet I do not know?

Apparently Upbringing

i will never
say i was ever
beaten growing
up but treated as

in a way as 
an equal but
with caution
so to say that

if i were so to
say say something
obscene or inappropriate
then a slap was a given but

this i understood
but i have to say that
there was never verbal
abuse but a talking to as

to do you
know what
you just said
or even implied

so that i was
an open audio 
book to be took
or taken for what

i said especially
after being able to
read books such as
1984 when it was only 

1970

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Sandra Adams January 9, 2020 at 7:54 PM you are lucky if you had no abuse of any form growing up...i did...i can still hear the echoes in my head if i choose to listen to the memories... i like the way you penned this one... :) hugs