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Step Mom

John D Robinson

She had married once or
twice before, had 3
children as a
memento and at
some point she was
deported from
Australia for her
involvement in a
murder;
she couldn’t handle
alcohol; prescription
drugs were her
forte and she married
my alcoholic
father and introduced
him to her
chemicals but her
dyed blonde hair
and heavy make-up
did not hide the
confusion and malice
in her blurred eyes
and although we never
made it as step-mother
and son,
we did share brief
moments that meant
something and
one time, both of us
drunk and travelling
on some liquid
codeine, she suggested
that I read
Kerouac’s
‘On the Road’
and I did and like
countless others I
felt liberated by the
book’s energy and
the sense of life’s
spiritual quest and
established a
life-long love of
Kerouac
but I never thanked
her for this and I
wished I had;
18 months after my
father checked-out,
she followed by way
of a chemical overdose,
following her road
to it’s unnatural
conclusion;
like Kerouac,
like too many,
too often and the
road never ends.

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