Family Values
John Hayes
When she was six into her home
she brought a word which she had heard
and naively asked,
“What’s it mean?”
He slapped her face
she staggered back
stunned eyes grew wide.
And then he said, “Get your ass to church”.
“What’s a condom?” she asked at twelve.
He said, “You’re much too young to know.”
Then sent her off to church.
At fifteen she was pregnant,
he sent her to a home.
At seventeen she robbed a store,
needed money for a fix.
He never knew why she went bad.
She always went to church.
