Fragonard # 4 by Helen Della Rosa

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.

"How To Talk To Children" by Kenneth Larot Yamat

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