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I'm sorry I'm me,

I want to be anybody else.

I want to go home, Karl, I want to-

“Dad, I'm not Karl, and we are home.”

Oh, God,

I'm sorry I'm like this

sorry

sorry

Don't be like your old man baby girl.

You know where it went bad.

Horse-faced b*****d recruiter

came up to my elbow, told me my

trigger finger don't work right.

No army,

I should've tried harder

don't be like me.

I wanna go home, Karl

“Go to sleep dad. We are home.”

Don't be like me honey,

you can be anything you want,

I want

to go home.

This place is spinning, do you see it

spinning,

like I'm a kid again on a merry-go-round

when I was a kid I wanted to be an artist.

I'm not good anymore

not good for nothin

but I could draw back then. I dreamed

of having a tattoo shop

where I could carve rainbow scars into people,

leave a bit

of myself on them

forever.

“You're drunk dad, go to sleep.”

You're mad at me, I know but I'm sorry,

so sorry

I'm like this.

But if you take us home,

I'll be better. Just take us home,

I'll go to sleep,

I won't do this any more.

I wasn't always

like this.

Can we go home-

“We're home. You're drunk. Go pass out somewhere,

I don't care where, just shut up, dad.”

I'm sorry

sorry

baby girl don't be like me.

I could've been better.

Reviews

[Divinity Sleeps in This]

When we babble neurotically, crazy how we are courageous enough to say the truth! I found this very clever and like a scene from a script.

I think you should write more about family turmoil.