Sunday, October 15, 2023

New Poem: HERE’S TO THE PARENTS

 here’s to the parents

 you know which of them I’m talking about 

 the ones who default to discipline if humiliation doesn’t work 

 who slap and hit well into teenage years

 who throw the approval preserver

 only if the child abandons his/her/their dreams


 taking junior on long summer vacations out of town

 all the better to ward off bad influences 

 but what if the child gets hurt by others saying no

 and the parent or parents choose to end this by saying:

 don’t you know I’d pay her to go out with you

 if I could 


 here’s to the parents

 who create children 

 that become nervous adults 

 and choose not to have children 

 of their own 

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