In the elevator
Express heading down
My father derailing
On buttons non-stop
My failure unknown
Elbows raised in defense
Become weapons instead
Enough is Enough
Old Man shout I
You have treated me like
A bend sinister child
My scoliotic curve
Accordian collapsing
Slinky toy on sacrum stairs
Like the heraldry shield
Of a bastardy heir**
And now the turn is mine
Pay back time is here
Pay back time has come
He stared at me
His first born child
Speechless, incredulous
Through headlong floors
Punched his chest & poked
His finger in my face:
You, me we’re alike
I nodded and thought:
You’ll forget this moment
But I wear you back and front***