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could you please help me an my sister
cuase dad cusses me an yells an hits her
its scarry an cold outside by myself in the dark
i sometimes go sleep under the slide at the park
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dear social service worker my name is jerome
i want you to know what lifes like in my home
im a lil mixed boy thats on seven years old
my mom an my dad locks me outta the house when its cold
my mom an my dad well both of them drunks
an they smoke rolled ciggerates i think they call em blunts
my dad gets drunk an beats on my sista
i hear the screams outside her bedroom winda
my moms always sleepin in the bed or on the couch
my dads in my sistas room an shes screamin ouch
she keeps screamin this word i think it was rape
dad said she got knocked up when she went on a date
mom calls me bad words ery day
she says im nothin but a mutha fuckin mistake
i asked her what fuckin means an she hit me in the head
she grabbed me by my hair an threw me on my bed
my sistas gettin fat an i dont know why
she yelled at my dad so he hit her in the eye
she said thanks to him shes havin a baby
when she said that dad just went crazy
he started kickin her in the belly
an he just would not stop yelling
moms smokin one of those ciggerates an they smell so bad
then they started smellin of some kind of white powder
mom started coughin louder an louder
they had water in a spoon an tried to lite it
dad put a shot to moms arm an said not fight it
then he did it to his self an his eyes went white
he got real loud an him an mom started to fight
im writin this note to see if you can help me an my sista
cause dad cusses me an hits my sista
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could you please me an my sister
cause dad cusses me an yells an hits her
its scarry an cold outside by myself in the dark
i sometimes go sleep under the slide at the park
