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Fountain Avenue Apartments
\nDoug\u00a0 Draime, August 2009<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>The woman next door
\nwas screaming at her kid again,
\nyelling horrible things at her.
\nThe little girl probably
\nnot more than 4
\nor 5,
\nbeing called a bitch<\/em> and
\na evil little asshole.<\/em>
\nI listened to her crying
\nthrough the stucco walls.
\nIt was the worse
\nit had ever been,
\nsince I moved in
\na couple months before.
\nPrevious outbursts had never
\nbeen that loud.
\nAnd it usually stopped after
\n10 minutes or so.
\nBut this time it went
\non and on
\n\u201cYou wasted cum of a drunk,\u201d
\nthe woman screamed.
\nSomething heavy
\nand substantial crashed
\nagainst the wall,
\nlike innocence being destroyed!
\nIt was the first time I had heard
\nthings shattering
\nand breaking.
\nI couldn\u2019t fucking take it a moment
\nlonger. I became enraged and all
\nI wanted to do was stick
\nmy boot up the
\nwoman\u2019s drunk and ignorant ass.<\/p>\n

I pounded hard on her door
\n3 times, yelling, \u201cI\u2019m calling the cops.\u201d
\nSilence from the other side, so
\nI pounded again.
\n\u201cIf I hear so much as you raise your
\nvoice to that kid again, I will have
\nyou arrested. Do you fucking hear me?\u201d
\nSilence. I stood there for
\na moment bending my
\near closer to the door,
\nlistening.
\nNot a sound.
\nI walked back to my apartment
\nThe next day when
\nI came home from work,
\nI learned that the
\nwoman and her kid
\nhad moved out,
\nowing 2 months back rent.<\/p>\n

I think about the little girl now and then,
\nafter all these years, and wonder
\nhow she turned out.
\nIf she has been resilient, broken the cycle,
\nand now, maybe, she is
\na loving<\/em> mother
\nto her own little girl?
\nThe alternative possibilities of what
\ncould have happened
\nto the her in her life, considering the travesty of her abuse,
\nare thoughts I avoid.
\nAnyhow, that<\/em> is not what this poem is about<\/p>\n

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Doug Draime emerged as part of the ‘underground’ literary movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960’s. Most recent books are: “Knox County” (Kendra Steiner Editions) and “Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980” (Covert Press). Forthcoming are 2 large collected volumes: “Transmissions From The Underground” (d\/e\/a\/d\/b\/e\/a\/t press) and “Farrago Soup” (Coatlism Press). Also, being released in 2009, a chapbook from Tainted Coffee Press, “Boulevards of Oblivion”. His diverse range of writing including: poems, short stories and plays, continue to appear in publications worldwide. Awarded PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. Nominated for 2 Pushcart awards in 2008. Draime moved
\nto the foothills of Oregon in the early 1980’s, where he still resides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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