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[aid] => mick
[title] => Tic Tacs for dinner
[time] => 2004-07-14 01:40:32
[hometext] => My parents have been divorced for ten years, and I've been starving ever since...
[bodytext] => It's time to eat tic tacs for dinner again Cause mommy forgot to leave some money And the fridge is empty While mommy is out drinking With her friends And gambling her money away But it's ok Cause I've got tic tacs for dinner And brothers got sunflower seeds And sisters got peanuts So it's ok While daddy's no longer with mommy And she's not here too make dinner Like last night And the last couple weeks But tomorrow the cupboards are empty And there's no more tic tacs Or sunflower seeds Or peanuts For us to eat And mommy's gambling again And drinking again And daddy's still not with mommy Cause they divorced years ago So for tonight Brother, sister, and I Go to bed to get rid of our tummy aches I remember a time When mommy used to cook dinner And didn't come home at midnight each night Tripping up the stairs Laughing loudly And I remember a time When we'd eat dinner As a family Every night at 7 o'clock on the dot And I remember a time When daddy was still with mommy They would rarely drink And always be home Daddy would take us to our baseball games Mommy would take us to movies But then on one day Mommy called us to the living room And daddy was crying And mommy sat us down Telling us that the were divorcing one another Because things weren't working between them But it wasn't our fault Oh no It wasn't our fault But we'd still see daddy on the weekends But eventually That stopped As sister turned 16 She stopped going To see our horrible father Who was never there Cause mommy divorced him And the brother turned 16 And drove me once But never came back To see our horrible father Who wasn't ever there Cause mommy wasn't getting along So now I go alone To see the father I love With all my heart Because my father Doesn't come home tripping up the stairs He's always there To talk or watch a movie with I don't wake up Not knowing where he is He doesn't go and drink with his friends Or go gamble all his money away And I never have to eat tic tacs there I never have to go to bed Just to stop my starvation Thats at my mothers house For these ten years I have been sleeping with an empty stomach And wondering where my mother is When I wake and when I sleep For these ten years I have been waking up in the middle of the night Listening to my mother stumble up the stairs Trying to find her bed For these ten years I've been seeing my mother with different men I've been hearing them in her bed While I've been going to bed For these ten years I've been missing my father I've been missing my mother And I've been eating tic tacs for dinner. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 181 [topic] => 39 [informant] => Asatru [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Grief )
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