CONFRONTING THE ENEMY

Carl Papa Palmer

What reason do you have to steal into my marriage?

confiscate my husband with your morbid romance, of all men why did you choose my man?

Why bring yourself into our house, disrupt our life, arrive unexpected, unasked, unwanted, unwarranted, can't you realize what you're doing to us?

Why wrangle his thoughts, mangle his memories, infiltrate his mind, defeat dreams, doom his future, obscure his consciousness, confuse reality, why?

Why not come out, face me, show me who are you, what are you calling yourself today, you Sick Bitch!

or is your name still Alzheimer, Senility or Dementia?

About the Author

Carl “Papa” Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military

and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), enjoying life as “Papa” to his descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

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