April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021
#10
What My Children Know

They know that my days as a child
were nothing stacked upon nothing,
So, I can't be trusted
when I tell them to go outside,
that desolate place
their Mom and I visited,
and they've heard about--like Antarctica.
There are penguins, and polar bears,
and no Wi-Fi, and anyway, it's raining.
I see Thing 1 and 2 shiver
with soggy newspapers
held above their spiky blue hair.
My children cannot hear them
knocking. They will never listen
for a favorite song to play,
dial a rotary phone, be left
In the car, or wait
for a frozen lump to cook
in the oven, or wait
for anything at all.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by CRNDLSM - 04-02-2021, 07:16 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by TranquillityBase - 04-02-2021, 07:47 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by Leaf - 04-03-2021, 02:19 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by Keith - 04-03-2021, 06:47 AM
Flying Lessons - by Mark A Becker - 04-03-2021, 06:54 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by milo - 04-03-2021, 08:42 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by dukealien - 04-03-2021, 09:45 AM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by RiverNotch - 04-03-2021, 09:42 PM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by Tiger the Lion - 04-07-2021, 02:27 PM
RE: April 2nd, NaPoMo 2021 - by Todd - 04-10-2021, 06:51 AM



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