{"sf1_id":1753939,"sf2_id":"Wel224Nn","title":"Damned to Do","author":"EmmaLycaonPictus","words":179,"posted_at":"2021-08-19T03:16:00.000Z","tags":["Canine","Dog","Female","Poem","Poetry","Real Life","Spoken Word","Verse","WritingGroupChallenge","african wild dog"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1753939-damned-to-do","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Wel224Nn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a9/9f/a99f1252-02e1-49df-988b-68b793b09634","description":"#8 of Work and/or Other Life Related\n\nA delve a bit deeper into my personal life and upbringing through poetry.","content":"Damned to Do\n\nCopyright © 2021 by Jenni Gisselbrecht\n\nHyaenidae Productions®\n\nAll Rights Reserved.\n\nI don't know why I fuckin bother,\n\nTo try with you to get along,\n\nSeems the more all that I try,\n\nThe more I cry from doing wrong,\n\nYou still don't see me as your daughter,\n\nJust still a bag for you to punch,\n\nA lowly crutch for when you're broken,\n\nFresh tender meat for you at lunch,\n\nYou see me as a play thing,\n\nNot for the fur and flesh you birthed,\n\nYou love to kick me when I'm down,\n\nNot just only where shit hurts,\n\nAll my potential bright in full,\n\nYou only see black,\n\nNot the stars,\n\nVivacious yeen all that I am,\n\nYou only see me chasing cars,\n\nA loving wife,\n\nA striving mother,\n\nYou see me only as a tramp,\n\nStomach growling,\n\nBare paw prowling,\n\nStuck on checks and food stamps,\n\nI'm trying to be the trade center,\n\nYou're the plane that knocks me down,\n\nFeel like I'm damned to do around you,\n\nAll like my skies are upside down\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Work and/or Other Life Related","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1753931-a-fate-much-worse.json","next":"https://sofurry.com/s/qmyLLNQe"}}