Sentences from a Prison

They fuck you up your Ma and Pa  
and mine did a killer job on me,  
with their frantic need to seem bourgeois  
stuffed me full of inhibitions, see?  
   
They imprisoned me inside my head  
with their injunctions on public act  
with nervous Ma " Oh, they'll cut me dead! "  
" If you "  to me "  don't behave, with tact..."  
   
My mother  " Come away don't speak with him    
or them or those or her don't skip be still  
be quiet, I'll smack, (she never did)  but looks can kill...
   
Be sure to say please and thank you  
but be quiet till spoken too, mind your P's & Q's    
don't fidget,  keep your hands away from..." as I grew  
I became withdrawn and knew I'd been    
imprisoned in my mind. I doubt I'm the only one  
my parents were imprisoned too.