Dad Slam Poems

unbelievable
     last ball game he’d ever see
          grand slam ball for dad








Took...

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For Anoucheka Gangabissoon
I chose to run but what would have
thing's been like if I had stayed 
30 / 10 / 2022

After my Dad received his...

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I think I may come from and my
hole entire family are tomatoes

And this the reason I think why
is this

We all have and possess such
perennial rotten...

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My father was exceedingly
intelligent and well versed
and worldly wise

Despite and inspite of his
humble working class beginnings
and lack of formal education

He used to say education and
common...

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My Dad always used to say

Better to win honestly and
with integrity in tact

Than by default 

Because your competition was
having a bad or off day

A hollow...

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Guilt,
is an influence better served chilled

And only time will tell

If this is to be the beginning 
or the end of mine

Was my lasting thought as...

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I won't go into it

The when , why and how

Let's just say i got injured 
and leave it at that

And when i recovered i tried...

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Pretty in Pink

Far more pretty than anything
i have ever seen before nor since

Read or wrote about or underscored

You are the flaming grass of winter

Blowing across...

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Dad,
I really need you now

Mum,
Is bad

And it's cold comfort you are dead

As i cannot ask you
And you cannot tell me 
What i am or supposed...

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Dancing to Sisqo 
like a dad at a disco
that ain’t the diss though
you’re a straight up pissed ho
handbag on the dance floor 
where your sandbag...

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I gave you a listen 
the rhythm is missing 
either it’s hidden 
or locked up in prison 

Say each word of the line
or it won’t...

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It’s funny how you have no remorse
I’ve studied this well,
I have taken your course.
Forgive!  You say,
As if I haven’t forgiven you
of all the pain...

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You were so tired
You couldn’t wait to go lay down
Mom was standing in the kitchen
I was outside locking things up
As you went through the back...

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The stars reached back
Each night
When I prayed that I would wake up and the pain would be over
And that everything everyone had ever said to...

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I met my wife before the booze
which sounds nicer than the truth
because before the booze was **** and drugs
and the mother of my first child,...

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