Monday, May 18, 2020

alone and desperate

AFTER WE CAME HERE.  I WAS 4.  AFTER A BIG SEND OFF IN HAWAII WE LANDED IN SAN FRANCISCO AT NIGHT THE LIGHTS OF THE CITY AND RUNWAY LOOKING LIKE FAIRY LAND.  IMMIGRANTS TO A NEW WORLD.  THE NEXT MORNING I WOKE UP ALONE IN THE COLD, QUIET AND DARK.  EVERYONE I KNEW AND LOVED WHO LOVED ME GONE.

THUS BEGAN MY CHRONIC DEPRESSION.  IT WAS WORSE AFTER MITZI WAS BORN UNTIL SHE WAS 6 MONTHS.  THEN I HAD A LIVE DOLL TO RAISE.  MY RESPONSIBILITY.  AILEEN WAS 10 NOT JUST TWICE AS OLD BUT TWICE AS BIG.  I WAS TRAPPED, IMPRISONED WITH BULLIES.  AILEEN PERFECTED HER SADISM.

I WAS POWERLESS, TORMENTED.  MY ATTENTION DEFICIT GAVE ME RESPITE.  I WOULDN'T HAVE SURVIVED OTHERWISE.

MY TV PROGRAMS GIVE ME HOPE FOR A HAPPIER LIFE.  WATCHING WHAT I WANT, CREATING THE LIFE I CHOOSE TO LIVE.  I'M WATCHING SYBIL WITH A NEW UNDERSTANDING.  SHE WAS AN ONLY CHILD CATCHING THE ENTIRE FORCE OF HER CRAZY MOTHER.  I HAD 1/3 MOM HAD 1/6.  MAYBE THAT'S HOW OLD TIME FAMILIES SURVIVED.  DAD HAD 1/5.  HIS OLDER BROTHER DIED.

I FOUND THE TWO DONUTS FROM FRIDAY I THOUGHT I ATE.


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