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A boy and his father on a ferry. A first draft. Please help review it. Thanks |
| That cold and rainy Friday Night. Father and boy were In a bobbing ferry going to Batam. Red Skies with flashes lit the endless sea. The father’s face was red With the stench of Cheap beer. His eyes coated with An invisible film. Beside him the boy, all eight years Of sticks and bones, stood up And quietly tried to slide past unseen. He tripped. And the father towered over him A red fist raised To smite another bone, Another token for the other woman. The boy laid on the floor His eyes open Looking at his father, past his father Through the empty ferry filled with people. That cold and rainy Friday Night. Father and boy were In a bobbing ferry going to Batam. Red Skies with flashes lit the endless sea. |