Daddy Hates the President

[Bill Floyd]

Daddy hates the president, he says this is all the president's fault.

After I'm supposed to be asleep, I hear him fighting with mama in their bed.

Daddy used to take me to the playground but now he mostly just talks back to the TV.

I told him he could sell back my trampoline if it would help, and that was the first time I ever seen my daddy cry.

Daddy hates the president and he's been cleaning all his guns.  

He says he's doing this all for me, and if he can't get to the president he can at least get to the president's kind.

[Mike Handley]

Sobering Oswaldian prose. Well done, Bill, and I love the tag.

[Brittany]

sad, scary and so close to non-fiction these days. powerful as usual.

[Angela]

I guess this could really be happening somewhere.

[Jared Handley]

Duck and cover, readers, this one's hitting close to home.

[Teresa]

Ouch.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Whoa!!

[Gita]

You've tapped into something nonfiction here. I wonder why these same people didn't clean their guns for the president who got us into these messes. Excellent and scary six.

[Javed Baloch]

Very nice Bill. Especially loved the closing line...