EMPLOYMENT CREDENTIALS
‘Wait! there’s got to be
another way!’
but if you were the 12
or 13-year-old boy with
an angelic voice, from a
poverty stricken Italian
family in the 17th century,
there may not have
been another way!
but
quite often, these
singers were treated
like today’s rock stars
and became very
wealthy, aiding their
families and friends,
living a life of
comfort, for the price
of their testicles:
‘Thanks mum, dad’
Castrato operations
were, thankfully,
finally,
banned in 1870.
PROLONGED
His biological mother was in
long term prison for her part
in a murder: father and the
young son of 6, seemed
happy and they made a
good world together:
then the father met another
woman, who moved in
with the father and son
within a few weeks and the
little boy’s world was
brutally and viciously
broken: she would insult
him constantly, order
him to stand in a certain
place for hours at a time,
make him watch her and
his father eat their
take-away meals: the
little boy, was barely fed,
and then, mostly, only
scraps but the beatings
with kicks and punches
from his father and the
woman were frequent
and when they killed
the little boy, they
stopped the torture:
initially the couple stated
that the boy had fallen
down a flight of
concrete stairs but the 91
separate injuries all
over his body, had
been inflicted over a
prolonged period of time:
both vile, sadistic adults
were sentenced to life:
the funeral of the young
boy was attended by
hundreds of mourners,
strangers, mostly.
MAKING DISTANCE
Of course, I should have
backed-away,
made distance,
I didn’t,
she died young of
narcotics, of violence,
betrayal, regrets, of a
savage harshness
that too many of us
know of:
she was strong,
even when she
knew death was
on her shoulders:
our interaction
although brief,
is still here,
particularly,
that time when we
kissed and
embraced
and then,
suddenly,
let go,
making that
distance,
as we should
have done,
knowing then,
we had
broken all
the rules.
SUSIE’S STORY
Susie was a sexual
‘pass-the parcel’,
Bob liked to think
of himself as her
protector and pimp:
Karl loved her and
wanted to marry her:
Bob fed her drugs
took monetary
‘bookings’ from
creeps to satisfy
their warped
perversions:
Karl was always
close by, at times
witnessing the
abuse:
Bob vanished when
the police became
interested:
Karl committed
suicide
and Susie became
hollow, see-
through, she became
mute,
but,
but, her eyes,
even Diablo
dare not look
into those.
John D Robinson is a UK poet: hundreds of his poems have appeared in print and online: he has published several chapbooks and four full collections of poetry: He is a multiple Pushcart Prize Nominee.
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