Handouts In The Rain

Teach your children stories
You can fill them full of lies
You can make them all despise
One another… one another

But when they all find out later
And they call us by our rightful names
And send us shamefully to old age

Taking handouts in the rain
Taking handouts in the rain
Taking handouts in the rain

Handouts In The Rain

Richie Havens

My father has been in my head all week, trying to justify his cruel treatment of my mother until the day she died -  and me for as long as I have memory. Today, I understand that this latest barrage of bullshit is fear-based and just his frantic attempt to avoid...

          taking handouts in the rain

He is forgiven