Donna Dallas

With Love from Ocala

Ain’t a miracle she came home knocked up 
after eight years of marriage 
she waddled around
with the baby name book 
makin list upon list  
stuff you didn’t get done 
cuz it interfered with your beers and shows 
but later when that kid crawls around 
on the cracked linoleum 
blonde wave of hair 
cornflower blue eyes
starin you down 
you know damn well kid ain’t yours
he look kinda goofy 
no-how yours

Old lady runnin around in house slippers
when you met she was wearin those stilettos 
you thinkin how you gonna send this kid back
this foul mouthed little shit
look nothin like you

And now y’all sittin on the back porch 
she’s potbellied and run down 
you’re itchin to get at her anyhows 
but this kid is suckin its thumb to a nub
got nothin to do with your dark hair
your eyes black as night 
and olive skin rough now 
from all that outdoors work you didn’t do

Something ain’t right with this dirty thing
rollin around the floors like a pig in mud

It ain’t right you say

Maybe it’s ok the little runt 
is loose in the walls 
and you’ll grow fondness 
or perhaps some admiration 
when the kid’s old enough y’all can have a chat 
a little tete-a-tete at the table 
with the devil servin y’all 
those baby blues starin 
straight into the soul you don’t have 
needling the message you dead-ass missed
about shootin blanks 

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