Toddler-oo
I don't want a murmuring marmite
I don't want a simmering thought
I don't believe in twopenny karma
cause everything I opine is wrong
I don't care what people think
I just want to eat candy and drink
I want to pull the hair of mean girls
and make them fistfight their catalogues
of worth, and ranking, and skirts
I want to demolish dustbins and doorsteps
in an act childlike and gratuitous
I want to bathe again in sentient violence
created solely for and by my pupils
I don't want to mind the gap
I don't want to look right, look left
I don't wish to be circumspect
I just don't want to be babysat
I want to earn a noble life
by clamoring nonsensicalities
that idiots could probably elevate
into gold-mine diktat rhetoric
I want to wage my own self
on my own principles, and desist
from clinging to fabrications and cheap idyll
I don't want to crash and burn
I don't want to twist my turns
I don't want to be a bore
but I just can't fathom my soul
therefore in unmitigated manifest
I am unable to confess
my chores, my plight, my lack of address
my speech, complete, in disinterest
I don't know if it's verifiably for sure
but I'll need a nut-wing cardigan
fairly soon
In the sombre hypothesis
That I intend to drift back to mute stasis
where guards sift through whistling chicks
their intoxication drifting about
Absent liquor oxygen tumors
And then I'll want like everyone else
without question the invaluable excess
of all this we call ours
but are mere prisms to our cellotaped existence
I wish to perpetrate a feast
without tangible release
and I may sink and stick to my manners
sharpened by tools of arts past.
