Kids Stuff
Kids Stuff
Children will believe anything
In talking animals
And moons made of cheese
Fairy castles
With shinning knights
And magic doors
Secret gardens
Dwarfs and Trolls
Evil kings and Evil Queens
Snow White dreams
Arabian Princesses
Warlocks and Witches
Yes children will believe in anything
Mermaids and cities beneath the sea
Great monsters
Unicorns and Dragons
Kids are so easily lied to
And led astray
The advertising of the latest craze
The fried slop burger meal
That taste so great
The necessity of cardboard box crunchy
Mass produced
Plastic child
Of Pokemon desirability
Yup kids will believe in anything
The mulching gargling abuse of an industry
Little consumer-ites
Hooked on the sweet and salty
The cartoon world
Of their resale-ability
Video games of make up
Fashion they need to be
In the general acceptance
Of peer pressure conformity
Children will believe anything
In plastic knives
And rubber weapons
In invincible soldiers
And righteous wars
The marketable idioms
Sell them violence
Convince them they have already grown
Play their games
On the fad gadget mobile phone
Little innocent targets
To blackmail parents with
Into parting with their hard earned cash
Give in
Stop the tantrums and the tears
Happy little children
See how we feed them
See what we teach them
About adults
Yup! Kids will believe anything
In star reaching swings
And daisy chains
In the realistic rattle of toy machine guns
In the great and grand promise of heaven
In a designer label
In the miniature worlds of Lilliputians
In what ever is fed to their imagination
With the chocolate goo flavored ketchup sauce
Of this crude ever pleasing entertain me culture
Yup! Children will believe anything
Amazing
What we teach them about adults
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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