Talk Hard
by Karen Black, 6/15/98

Say thank you
you tell me
like I'm a five-year-old

Thank you for what?
I ask

For raising you right
For giving you all that we had
you say

But all you ever had
were chains
bloody chains
I protest
and they hurt

One day you'll thank me
you insist

Maybe
or maybe one day
I'll curse you
I say--
but I only say it
silently
because the chains
hold me back


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