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Apologies for My Children
Explain yourself
mocking crowds
call out to me
Why so many kids?
My answers change
with the years
yet I remain sincere
Here's a new one:
What if you had
two kids
who were so much trouble
you had to
have as many as possible
thereafter
just to overcome
the damage
the first two did?
What if
your planet was dying
like your family tree?
Breed an answer
...if you dare
mocking crowds
call out to me
Why so many kids?
My answers change
with the years
yet I remain sincere
Here's a new one:
What if you had
two kids
who were so much trouble
you had to
have as many as possible
thereafter
just to overcome
the damage
the first two did?
What if
your planet was dying
like your family tree?
Breed an answer
...if you dare
Published 16th Nov 2019
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'Breed an answer if you dare'- put a smile on my face.
I knew a woman work colleague who said she tried for her third child because one of the two was being rather selfish and spiteful towards the other child so, reading between lines, she thought that child would drop its stance if it saw they were outnumbered and the additional children needed treating with consideration.
In my country certainly people are not so nasty about people with large families of children if they are rich and the parents have independent means of support eg run businesses or are landowners - as they do about those who because of parental unemployment or inability to work have to draw welfare.
I knew a woman work colleague who said she tried for her third child because one of the two was being rather selfish and spiteful towards the other child so, reading between lines, she thought that child would drop its stance if it saw they were outnumbered and the additional children needed treating with consideration.
In my country certainly people are not so nasty about people with large families of children if they are rich and the parents have independent means of support eg run businesses or are landowners - as they do about those who because of parental unemployment or inability to work have to draw welfare.
