subject to financial, sexual, disparaging jabs
about parents, disdain from hedonistic uncle,
antipathy and manipulation by and about grandmother.
And Jake ate as Charlie belittled his knowledge,
as Alan fretted about his his eating, his weight,
as even Berta belittled his wild-child living out
the weed-culture nurturing. We watched him grow,
cute child to chubby puberty to thinned-down teen,
but the issues remain, make you wonder, which route
will he walk to recovery? What addiction will dominate?
To food, sex, porn, gambling? Where will Jake finally find
his own, his home?
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