Karma’s a Bitch

Did you feel it when they sucked you from my womb? A whore's womb. That's what he said, your daddy. "No baby a' mine 'll come outta that whore's womb", and he chucked me the cash to deal with ya. Oh, baby, you're safe now. Better there than here. The walls are startin' to frost with winter comin'. Last night a wino near barrelled down the door to get to the fire but passed out onna porch tryin'. He was gone come mornin'. Tabby has learned to break the ice atop her dish most days but it went solid through yesterday. I imagined how you'd a fared. I imagined waking up finding you stone frozen, your rosy lips still moist under the ice, your eyes open, accusin', asking What have you done? I gettin' justice is what I done. You think your daddy got to just go home after sayin' a thing like that? Every week he still come. And when he sleeps I cut a lock of his hair and burn it in the fire, asking the gods to burn him too.