All the King's Horses

Parenting is now a 
full contact sport

No lines demarcated,
no rules to enforce

The children still babies,
the adults still kids

Diapering the future
—attached at the hip

(State College Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Koplin Avatar
February 17, 2020 at 8:56 PM
Diapering the future You hit that one right on the head. Very nice poem. I greatly enjoyed the read.
Behm Avatar
February 17, 2020 at 8:59 PM
Thanks Mark, I'm honored you read it. Kurt
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