Showing posts with label laughter. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Words Repeated By Children


There are certain things one restates
When in the company of children

And then there are those,
That lose all potency, when a softened
Stance is struck

There are certain things
That kids these days
unexpectedly repeat

They’ll spin back those nasty verbs
The ones you didn’t think
 they could’ve overheard

And oftentimes, they’ll use such terms
When an argument ensues

But instead of admonish them
You cannot hold back the red
And demand they repeat back what they just said

For there’s something inherently funny
when vulgarity is spoken by
innocent girls and boys

oftentimes, such a riot
you cannot remain quiet
and your laughter quickly turns to tears

which of course
is something children hold so dear,
that is, the sound of elation in you they’ve caused
so, unfortunately they’ll surely use such words again, if only to regain your delightful applause.

And so, to compensate
you create made-up languages to replace such words
Or simply become that parent that always and forever spells