Flowers of hope

Leonard hates his father fiercely, to the point of trembling, to the point of breathlessness, to the point of tooth creaking. Lewis has two children in his arms, a bitch-wife who abandoned him (big deal, beat!) and a ruined career. Len has a father-beast and a little Lisa, who has nightmares, and also teeth change. Lisa cries in pain at night, her father is angry and threatens to strangle the little trash, and Len defends Lisa with all his might. Lewis decides that loving his children, as fathers love, is not enough, and from that day on, h e l l begins for Leonard.  "You will understand, you will surely understand everything later…" Len wonders when this promised "later" will come, because he does not understand, n o t u n d e r s t a n d s how it is possible to treat your relatives, your children so cruelly. "Lisa is still little," says Lewis, "it's too early for her now, but when she grows up...". Len will not allow his father to ruin his little sister, who looks at him so trustingly and as if she already understands everything, that she clings to him, seeking protection from the person she should call "dad", the father looks at her predatory and beats her when Len is absent. "It's too early for her now, but when she grows up..." Lewis pulls promisingly, grabbing his son's face with his fingers to look into his eyes. Lisa has grown up. Lisa has changed. Lisa, like Leonard, h a t e s her father, black, black roses bloom on their wrists, which get bigger and bigger every day, but fall off when Lewis goes to prison. Brother and sister swear to each other that they will not cooperate with their father e v e r. And then Lewis puts a bomb in his daughter's head and everything goes awry. December 8, 2018