poem 8b

Child of Rage- Dramatic monologue

When I found the baby birds, my new mommy told me

Not to play with them, because their mama wouldn’t

Want the babies if they were touched by somebody else.

Sometimes I think I’m like that. Like nobody wants me

Because Daddy touched me until I bled.

I still have those nightmares of me when I was one

Year old and Daddy falling on me and hurting me with

A part of himself.

And even though my new mommy and daddy tell me they

Love me, I don’t care. ‘Cause I know it’s all about being strongest.

Daddy was the strongest. That’s why he hurt me.

If you want to be the strongest you have to know

How to get rid of everybody that stands in your way. That’s why

I’m going to kill Jon.

I know he’s my brother but I’m the strongest so he has to die. Plus

He’s annoying. Mommy and Daddy are annoying too. They always

Tell me what to do, and I don’t like it, so

I’m going to kill them.

At bedtime they lock my door shut tight. They’re afraid

I’ll get out and hurt them and Jon. They know I want to kill them

At nighttime because I don’t like them seein’ me do it

But they can feel me do it.

My mommy and daddy are always making me

Mad. Like that one time when I was hitting Jon’s head

On the concrete floor in the basement.

I heard Mommy’s footsteps in the kitchen. Coming

To stop me. I couldn’t hide it ‘cause both me and Jon had blood

On us. Mommy is always stopping me from doing stuff.

She yells at me when I take her pins and poke

Jon and the dogs and kitties. I always poke a lot

Not a little bit.

There was one time I stole the knives from the kitchen. I was talking

To Mommy about them. “I don’t know where they are”,

I said with a smile. But I had them. I needed them so I could kill

Jon and Mommy with them.

And daddy.

They make me so mad.

That’s why when she wasn’t paying

Attention to me I went back to that bird’s nest. And I snap snap snapped

Their necks.