Caroline Bird — Little Children
Poetry Unbound
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On Behalf of My Younger Self, I Apologize
On behalf of my younger self, i apologized to my parents for the simplictic ill informed and ignorant questions i hurled concerning their romantic and sexual life choices. I was operating under a false consciousness, responding to an imagined society governed by laws id gleaned from picture books about tigers coming to tea. And it's funny because it's true. The whole thing builds up like a piece of theatre. True enough as it is, i think lots of people would go, my god, you i wait, you hear the story about my little one. And then the poem turns on behalf of my young self i apologize.
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