Alcoholic lover

Beautiful. wretched, alcoholic
I love you so!

Beautiful darling
I have to let you go.

Beautiful baby,
with dreadful moods
with spiteful actions
and words so rude.

Beautiful taker,
with nothing to give.

You are draining away my will to live.

poem by Barbara Clafton
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Ten O'Clock Newsflash

She argued with her parents,
decided to leave home,
packed her small school bag
and left, feeling alone.
Took a train from the station,
destination London - so easy!
But she was young, naive, so pretty
and London was so sleazy.
She soon ran out of money
cardboard box bed in shop doorways,
nowhere to wash, feeling dirty
and not eaten for days.

Ten o'clock newsflash - MISSING TEENAGER.
Parents pleading, police description
offering a substantial reward
for any genuine information.
Heard nothing for ten days now,
she's caused them so muchtrouble,
if only they would find her,

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poem by Barbara Clafton
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