
Caroline Bird — Little Children
Poetry Unbound
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Little Children Is Like the Tsarist Autocracy
Little children are like the tsarist autocracy of pre revolution russia. Their soft hands have never known work. Parents aren't permitted even the smallest private perversion. Yet a child can secretly urinate in a drawer for three weeks until the smell warrants investigation. It's like the sixties never happened. They believe every adult should be locked into a sexless yet eternal marriage, never slip up or forget even a lunch box and be completely transparent and open to feedback 24 seven. On behalf of my younger self, i apologized to my parents for the simplistic, ill informed and ignorant questions I hurled concerning their romantic and sexual life choices. How could you do that to dad? How could you
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