Biographical Poetry posted September 4, 2019


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The day he left.

Dad Gone

by Sally Law

………

The front door

slammed

so hard

it shook

the entire apartment,

as if

to say,

“I’m never

coming back.”

I hope

whatever’s 

in that bottle

was worth it.  
………



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#977
2019


I lost my Dad to alcoholism in 1976. He left our family when I was just a young child.

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