HUMAN NATURE DITTY
Young parents today have fits
When kids go through similar bits…
As they did
Feeling themselves amid,
Afraid they’ll be hypocrites.
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So their children consigned to burn
While parents withhold what they’ve learned…
Thinking unfair
That THEY were there,
Parental responsiblity spurned!
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We’re all susceptible to greed,
Lust overpowering need…
Easier to play
When the debt’s far away,
And the repo man can’t draw a bead.*
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Each generation relaxes
A little in child rearing practice…
Til someone comes around
And lays their foot down,
Reversing the practice that taxes!
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Some things I don’t understand,
Why…I’m a childless man…
No fault then that
Handling a brat
Is not something that I can.
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I see and observe in life,
Which helps, because my wife…
Makes sure I learn
More in turn,
Between us we’ll have less strife!
–Jonathan Caswell
* to draw a bead…or, to draw a bead on…to aim at.
