And the Accusations Fly

photo by a Canon camera salesman
Insert card and procedure.
Remove the chance that we had,
visiting.
Are you English?
I don’t understand.
I didn’t red one second in that girl.
Stay high and close.
There’s a ballpark you’re gonna play on.
It’s just a matter of minutes.
Come on get happy.
Ecstasy at the apex.
Ride your family.
There’s more than family values.
Okay A camp,
there’s Donny.

I’m gonna realize you in the stack.
The stone of my words
will remove them
from any look on themselves innocent.
Arrow on his sight,
and Auroville is under the dominion of these wares.
Well that’s in Pondy.
The hand butter or you are called potentials,
the rest of your life.
Don’t feel scared there.
You’re not wet cross.

Why would the child cry?—
excellent.
For some attention.
These phrases stopped your evolution.
You didn’t touch that child.
You were so good to him he cried
when you left.
David Wayne was it?
Your cousin’s boy,
David King.
They accused you of molesting him
because he cried when you left.
What a child and jury,
these were your cousins you’d known all your life.
They just accused you,
without even knowin’ why.

“Must’ve stuck your hand down his pants,
when we weren’t lookin’.”
That was your uncle Jerry,
whom you’d loved all your life.
Jerry Duke and his wife Sherry Duke,
they were monsters to you.
Karen and Eddie,
their children,
were the posse.
I think they saw the kid cry
and made out you did it.
You saw each one of them born
and grow up.
They were Jerry Lloyd’s brother and sister,
your first best friend,
the love of your life until you were five.
You were like twins,
daily in your playfields together.
You kept that love,
growin’ up.
He didn’t.

Now wasn’t it David King had you stroke his penis
when were a little boy and he a teen,
and didn’t he tell you he raped Karen
when she was 11,
he 18?
Wow you, Eddie and Jerry Lloyd,
a lot of sex play when you were little,
penises all in each other’s mouths,
especially you and Jerry Lloyd.
This continued growin’ up.
All the cousins did it,
James Duke too,
and you’ve always remembered that horse
Jerry Lloyd and them fucked when you were teenagers.
Did I see you get on it too?
Steve fucked yours,
do you remember?
You were 10,
he 14.
Now they’re gonna go and accuse you of child molestation.
It ain’t right.

Jewett, they all lived in Jewett, Texas,
on Old Durant Road.
Some of ‘em still there.
Mean people,
they just got rid of you
when you were in college,
and they were not.
Wow you had been a Green Beret,
and they hadn’t been anything.
They are jealous, vile, people,
and your love for them was never returned.
The suffering of that false accusation,
it changed your life.
You wailed in dream.
You couldn’t believe it,
and they never spoke to you again.

How’s that for family?
They’re all born again Christians,
and they act like it.
They don’t love their brother.
They don’t even know he’s there,
still hurtin’ from their murder of his love.
He cried for years
in the solace of dream.
This hurt.
What did it do to his ramrod?
False accusations sting.
They waylay you.

They change your behavior.
Why even try?
You do it then.

You were really good to David Wayne.
He was four and don’t remember a thang.
He was a cute little guy.
The Dukes and the Kings,
how are they with kids?
They take care of them but don’t give them any attention,
the kind that opens them to society
kind people.
They give them swimsuits and baseballs,
but not the focused family time they need.

They all watch television together.
It’s not raise a kid,
and they’re the center of the room,
the heart of the attention.
They’re not fostered
so they grow up nice and sweet.
They’re whipped
with belts and switches and a lot of anger,
and along comes this nice man
from know how to do it,
because he loves children so,
and David Wayne gets the attention he so desperately needs.

Why did he shake his head yes that you touched him?
He was four and didn’t know what they mean.
This was a holocaust
to that family’s sense of love and devotion,
to that little boy’s pride.
They got away with it,
until today.
You hear me speak now.

Tell me about it.