daddy could not stop
whipping the children's backs
a drunkard he was
but he quit drinking 40 years later
from lamb to alligator
or alligator to lamb
probably a good man
life was fantasy
without ecstasy
the house filled with cockroaches
and mice
that prayed for help
so the traps would not get them
nobody was allowed to go to church
there was poverty and dreams
from alligator to lamb
from lamb to alligator
pray and see you later