A Prayer for Daddy

Lord let there be love. Makeshift

AC. Crying on the floor again

Daddy I’m sorry for not knowing how to be good

I promise this time I will stay still

Another day of photographing my body

I am the loneliest person to never exist

Daddy told me he never fucked another ghost like me

Cruelty has never meant much to me

Daddy taught me how to never win and still get the last laugh

Daddy says he don’t know me anymore

Daddy says what’s your name

What’s our name

Daddy, if I was your mother I would drown you

I would you hold you down and make

Silly faces at you. I am sorry I could

Never keep you warm

Kyle Tomchesson is a writer based in Texas.