STORIES OF BEDTIME
Noel King
Mammy says Daddy
Won’t be home because
Daddy’s working late
but I know Daddy
has been to a place called the pub.
When he does get here there’re sounds
awful from downstairs and then their room.
Daddy loves me, gives me money
takes me to ‘suitable’ films
and Sunday soccer matches.
He says to Mammy
he’ll leave that woman,
but I’ve seen her more
than Mammy has
and she has a lump in her belly:
Daddy’s lump. I know the bitch is
more glamorous than Mammy is
although she doesn’t talk as nice
I ring the … her number I found
in Daddy’s book. I know it’s bad
but she goes mad when
she hears no one
on the phone. I love my
Mammy, will stay with her.