Colleen Kaufman Had Her Revenge On Her Parents

CranMalReignCranMalReign Posts: 1,928
edited February 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Names changed to protect the innocent.

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Colleen Kaufman Had Her Revenge On Her Parents
September 2, 2002

When I was 16
Colleen Kaufman had her revenge on her parents

Kelly was my physics lab partner
I remember she was gone for a few weeks
after her little sister had her revenge on her parents

And I remember no one said much when she came back
She wasn't really with us
after her little sister had her revenge on her parents
I did all the lab work
It was fine with me
She didn't say much, so I didn't ask

But I had read about it in the newspaper a few days after she left
so I knew... sort of
we all knew
some silly pretty freshman had her revenge on her parents
with a revolver in the field behind the house
Print didn't do justice
to the silence in physics class
when her sister drifted back in

But Kelly Kaufman got straight A's that semester
from deep within a catatonic sea lain calm as a paradox
The school district empathized
when her fragile little sister took her revenge on her parents

They paid dearly for breaking her heart
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  • :( Heart wrenching!
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  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    what did her parents do?
    It's all yellow.


  • Originally posted by Yellow
    what did her parents do?

    Basically forbade her from being with her boyfriend, whom they deemed a rotten character.
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    • 00 Pgh
    • 03 Pgh|Philly|PSU|Camden 1+2|Hershey
    • 04 Boston 1|Reading
    • 05 Philly
    • 06 Camden 1+2|Pgh
    • 08 Camden 1+2|Hartford|Mansfield 2
    • 09 Philly 1 [EV]|Toronto|Spectrum 1-4
    • 10 Cleveland|Buffalo
    • 11 Philly [EV]|PJ20
    • 12 Philly
    • 13 London|Pgh|Buff|Philly 1+2|Balt
    • 14 Cincy|StL
    • 16 Philly 1+2|Philly 2 [TotD]
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  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    SHEESHE!


    slight hormonal imbalance?



    note to self...
    make note to self about this later :)
    It's all yellow.


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