Mutiny of DNA
by Tommy Kirchhoff

fathers mind twists

while mine retroes

such love is battle

our tears of might

fall like brimstone or bombs

the struggle is mad scream

his proof of power

my proof of manhood

proof shattered glass

when does a boy

become a man?

when father says

and HE won't allow that

oedopus killed

it was no mistake

bloodspilled

to pass kill father

if even in a dream

cut the lanyard that binds our hands

and makes us hate

cut his throat

and become a man