Jalisco # 2 by Yesenia Obrador

"How To Talk To Children" by Kenneth Larot Yamat 

If they act up you have to

tell them that they
will be going
to jail with

the elephants and the tigers
where they will
be eaten up
like food

and torn to bits by the vultures
and the dinosaurs who live
in the prisons and who
are there just to eat

children who act up at the grocery store
and piss in their beds and who crap
in their diapers when they are
already two years old.

At that age I was already
paying the mortgage
and had a fulltime job
and had three
children.

So don't tell me you are too young to have
responsibilities.  That is horse doo doo
and you won't get away with
trying to be a child forever.