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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mistaken Identity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mother lay in a stupor filled<br>With alcohol and drugs, <br>The twins lay wet in the carry-cot<br>And screamed at the top of their lungs, <br>The boyfriend of the moment sat<br>At a bar in a nearby town, <br>Drinking away the welfare cheque<br>And taking them further down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sally Pearce was a homely girl<br>As such, and easily led, <br>Many a teenage male had found<br>His way to her maiden bed, <br>They bought her favours with alcohol<br>And hooked her on cocaine, <br>They so befuddled her mind that she<br>Could not remember her name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Jack had her in the morning when<br>The sun was low in the sky, <br>While Derek had her lunch when she<br>Had snorted coke, and was high, <br>She carried the seeds of both of them<br>And both of them found a home, <br>Embedded deep in her ovaries<br>As she lay drugged out, alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when she heard she was having twins<br>She didn't know who to blame, <br>But thought it must be the first of them<br>So gave the twins Jack's name, <br>She didn't know that their fathers were<br>As different as chalk and cheese, <br>For Jack passed on a criminal gene<br>While Derek passed S.T.D's.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first one born was Timothy, <br>With a mop of jet black hair, <br>Then twenty minutes to follow on<br>Came Adam, so pale and fair, <br>They could have been Cain and Abel<br>If she'd only studied the book, <br>For Adam was such a happy child<br>While Tim had an evil look.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hardly saw them growing up<br>They learned to fend for themselves, <br>They'd go and ransack the kitchen<br>Pulling the food right off the shelves, <br>The boyfriends came and the boyfriends went<br>In a long, continuous line, <br>They didn't know what a father was<br>Nor a mother, most of the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only love that they ever knew<br>Was their love for the brother twin, <br>For they were the only constants as<br>The others came out and in, <br>While Adam took to his books and proved<br>A whiz at Math in his school, <br>Timothy fought a constant war<br>To tell the truth, he was cruel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He punched the boys and tortured the girls<br>And dipped their plaits in the ink, <br>Protected Adam from bullies and fools<br>But never had cause to think, <br>Adam went on to Uni while<br>Timothy took to the street, <br>Dealing in drugs, and taking home<br>Enough for his mother to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Adam had met a girl called Gaye<br>She liked that his eyes were brown, <br>He gave her his sophomore ring one day<br>Escorted her round the town, <br>She wanted to meet his brother, Tim<br>But Adam would not be drawn, <br>He said that his brother had gone away<br>‘Til he called one day, to the dorm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Timothy's eyes had met with Gaye's<br>And they felt a shock of delight, <br>For opposites often attract, they say, <br>As day will follow on night, <br>For Gaye was ripe with an innocence<br>That will fall for an evil spell, <br>So Timothy started meeting her<br>In the quad, by the old stairwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found her body at Easter-time<br>Down an old storm-water drain, <br>Raped and beaten, her throat was cut, <br>And they said, ‘He must be insane! '<br>Adam was taken down to the cells<br>And grilled for almost a day, <br>‘You were the girl's last boyfriend, <br>We'll be taking your D.N.A.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The D.N.A. was almost a match<br>Enough for a guilty plea, <br>While Adam strongly denied the charge, <br>‘It certainly wasn't me! '<br>He didn't mention his brother's name, <br>But hoped he would see the day<br>When Timothy came to visit him, <br>But Timothy went away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came for him in the dawning light<br>And marched him into the shed, <br>His lips were trembling as he stood<br>And bit his lip ‘til it bled, <br>‘Any last words you'd like to say<br>Before you pay for your sin? '<br>The rope had tightened around his neck<br>When he almost whispered, ‘…'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">22 November 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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