Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27531979-20160103203900

My daddy has a job,

It happens late at night,

Whether it’s raining hard,

Or if the moon is shining bright.

I’d wait in the garden

And hear the rumble of his bike.

He’d ruffle my fluffy hair,

Calling me his little tyke.



One night when at my window,

I saw something in his hand.

It was long and SILVER,

I thought, “He’d must be in a band.”

Mind you, I was 4 years old,

It was an instrument all right!

It wasn’t a flute or clarinet,

<p class="MsoNormal">It was, indeed, a knife!

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<p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes he’d leave me toys or food,

<p class="MsoNormal">The morning he came home.

<p class="MsoNormal">They sometimes smelled of blood,

<p class="MsoNormal">Some were also made of bone.

<p class="MsoNormal">Now I’m older and wiser,

<p class="MsoNormal">Closer to my dear old dad,

<p class="MsoNormal">He took me out to work with him

<p class="MsoNormal">Oh what fun we had,

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<p class="MsoNormal">When we heard the people screaming

<p class="MsoNormal">At our masterpiece of gore.

<p class="MsoNormal">Then down they’d fall, no noise at all!

<p class="MsoNormal">Dad and me begged for more!

<p class="MsoNormal">We’d sometimes visit Mama,

<p class="MsoNormal">At her home under the tree.

<p class="MsoNormal">We’d leave her gifts and flowers,

<p class="MsoNormal">Then off home we would be.

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<p class="MsoNormal">In the day we’d evacuate,

<p class="MsoNormal">The bike growled when on the street.

<p class="MsoNormal">We’d doze a while, then awaken once more,

<p class="MsoNormal">And get something to eat.

<p class="MsoNormal">One day I told dad

<p class="MsoNormal">About some bullies at my school.

<p class="MsoNormal">He sorted them out, without a doubt.

<p class="MsoNormal">My daddy is so cool!

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<p class="MsoNormal">My daddy and I love our job,

<p class="MsoNormal">I tag along as well.

<p class="MsoNormal">Feasting on the bad ones,

<p class="MsoNormal">The ones who will go to Hell!

<p class="MsoNormal">We both have such fun,

<p class="MsoNormal">Doing our job at night,

<p class="MsoNormal">Someday my kids will join us,

<p class="MsoNormal">Then everything would be all right.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Keep your doors and windows shut,

<p class="MsoNormal">Sleep until the night doth end.

<p class="MsoNormal">Daddy and I may pass you by,

<p class="MsoNormal">And leave you be, my friend.

<p class="MsoNormal">My daddy and I love our job,

<p class="MsoNormal">Which we do at night.

<p class="MsoNormal">Whether it’s raining hard,

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