Alchemisland

Standard secondary school bully

At home Dad batters me

A burning rage embattles me

I am in battle with everyone, and they against me 

He batters me and his slaps empower me 

Battersea power station 

Learnt cruelty, elation at sadation

Marquis de Sade section 

Of my life, ten year erection

Causing me strife, predilections

Primarily phallic in origin

We never make predictions 

But no one said I’d be a politician 

They said I’d be fighting addiction 

Or in prison with a rictus grin

Aloof to the world, Onegin

The origin of my apathy the first time he slapped me

Turned my head like Ike Turner spread 

His palm like stinging jam across the bread of my head

Not dead but red as and want redemption 

Cheek red as a newspaper, hot as struck steel in the forge 

He reads his newspaper, his back to me, I inch open the drawer 

Clasp a Rambo handle like a slasher movie, imagine gore

Push it closed, not how this story goes

I’m reddening noses at first approaches

I’m throwing blind punches in hopes of

Closing his eyes 

Stomp down to check his shoe size

Shark expert shocked at the bite size 

Considers it evidence of Megalodon survival

Act like I’m thriving, everyone is my rival 

But who is shaking at daddy’s arrival 

I’m like a beaten piebald in the knacker yard tied to a post 

Wouldn’t boo at a goose, thin and pale as a ghost

Could hold me up aloft easily, blessing the hosts.