Red (intoothandclaw) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-06-23 01:48:00 |
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Entry tags: | lee chikatilo, prompt #02 |
002. Family
Family, huh?
Been a good damn long time since I thought about my family. When I was a kit I thought they were just perfect, just the best. But every cub thinks that about his folks.
You get older, those illusions drop away.
My daddy taught me chivalry, and he showed me how to get drunk and break your word.
Ma taught me love. The conditional sort.
I guess I'm being too harsh. They didn't hit me. They hit each other more than he hit her. Between the yelling they were good to each other, I s'pose.
S'pose I'm just still bitter I don't remember 'em any better than I do, 'cos someone saw fit to take 'em away from me no matter how I felt about 'em.
I've still got his claws and her teeth, somewhere. That's all I could get from their graves.
The bones don't help me remember the people they were, just the feeling of them.
Close enough, when you've got nothing else.