Thursday, August 15, 2013

VARIATIONS OF CHILDREN



  • i

    what they need is just
    a box of chocolates
    the cheapest that you
    can buy from that
    flea market

    if you give them money
    their father will spend it
    on cigarettes and bet on
    a cock derby this coming
    sunday

    ii

    the one with a blue shirt
    wants to play killing with guns
    the other one will play dead
    and the last one will, by
    statistical probability, like
    a barbie doll

    iii

    next month their mother will
    again be pregnant
    and then their father will
    be laid off from work

    iv

    The President of this country
    will build them a house for free,
    a lot too where the house shall stand
    He will also give money for them
    to cross the bridge of poverty
    and this three will not go to school
    and the mother will have another
    pregnancy and the father will have
    no plan of finding work

    they can thrive on charity,
    they will live on dole-outs
    and they will vote without
    thinking come election time

    and the same political dynasty shall win
    all over again

    v

    it will be the same mess
    the same hopeless case

    vi

    tomorrow a writer will change his
    point of view
    he will be cursed for his pessimism

    and these kids who will grow to become
    lazy bones
    will have wives who like to sleep and make
    more children

    whose picture will again be taken
    by another man who will say that the
    writer died at an early age and
    was proven wrong by the
    pages of history.

    vii

    fine. That is the ending of this
    fiction.

    Which i know, you never liked

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