Expectations Grate
or
Happy Mealtime
"From time to time, children mature into liars and cheats --
or even parents."
-- a poet-philosopher
childless,
as well as diaper free
* * *
A lyric sweet is every tiny tyke,
whose parents' -- "Hey! Shut it, mister! And eat
your fries! Hey! I don't like -- Hey! I don't like
your attitude! -- And you, you eat that meat,
young lady -- Sit! -- Some poor old -- Sit! -- old pig
is being tortured -- Sit! -- right as we speak
so you and Porky here can grow up big
and -- I said sit! Sit! You just took a leak!
And drink your shake! Drink it! Hey! Hey! You do
not use that -- Sit! -- Some cow is suff -- I'm SPEA-
KI -- What? -- Wha -- Shut your -- I can't hear -- Hey, you!
You get your ass back -- What? All right, go pee --
And you, you fu -- And flush it God damn it! --
And -- JESUS CHRIST! Zip it back in, you sh*t!"
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the vast Pain
of children with parents
a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean on
the ideology of natalism --
which generally sooner,
rather than later,
goes to the dickens
february, 2023 -- yet each parent with great expectations
Pip shall not develop into a child
molester
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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