conception

she was the last of 16    
when her mother said    
i'm done    
let the oldest sister have her    
   
and her own son    
she gave away    
to the church when    
he was 9    
   
and then he was 16    
the last time    
he his saw his father    
whole bottle whisky drunk    
a bloody Scottish brawl    
a fractured jaw  
   
the marines got him next    
taught him how to kill well    
not so much to love    
   
the 3 daughters and dying wife    
he left home during Vietnam    
listed MIA    
   
while his oldest girl    
a biker tribe now her kin    
took the war against war a little too far    
with a little too much LSD    
and pigs blood thrown on the returning boys    
a needle in the arm    
and me in the womb    
   
5 years gone since    
her run away    
to the fabled    
san francisco    
summer of love    
   
the age of aquarius    
now the bastard son    
of a junkie for christ  
and one of hell's    
leather clad angels