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fashion a cheap, functional spoon
to ladle your stew.

find shoes that won't crack.
they should stomp through the nonsense
storms.
cut up all theoretical mud
relish pounding on hard-headed male
rock)

take out the trash in a muckbrown bin
that smells just right for what you've set out
to do, because
it's so rough raising such rank dumpsters of boys,
as we admire your rounding and flattening
straining shoulders
we can see it all from the surrender-slumped couch

ask us questions.

your sturdy authentic-leather boots have marched so far
and they are so ugly.
(they never pleaded for answers.)

our girls' prancing arches will scoff at them
for five or ten years
as they splash on,
and keep slopping,
but your children will never taste the love
gumming up your split-pea soup

because our wilds are fenced in the gated neighborhoods
between mother and son.

your brood is undefined.
we liken ourselves to roadside litter,
burger chain refuse, defiled,
tossed and torn.

you can ignore it,
comb aisles for a detergent
to bleach the skidding stains clean
(we fell off the family bandwagon at full speed,
we're rebels, we'll be runaways
we'll be washed up and cleaned out
straightaway)

your apron is ruined, but pick through the clearance racks
and i'm sure you'll spot a dress
that covers the redletter stains.
3-3-12.

dysfunctional families.
inadequate poetry.

(edit 9-6-12.)
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