This week’s Poetry Thursday assignment was to read your poem out loud. I read my poem to a few women in my neighborhood, and they all hated it. For some reason, it made me like it even more.
Everybody Loves a Baby
Everybody loves a baby
That’s the title of this piece
I heard this conversation (maybe)
While visiting my niece:
“Look at my little Beatrice
Isn’t she a gem?
She’s really quite angelic
She’ll surely voting Dem.Her hair’s just like the hubby’s,
So fiery and red.
And don’t you love the Yankees cap
That’s sitting on her head?”
Now, as I watched this drama
I bit my lower lip.
I prayed for the overpriced stroller
To hit a rock and flip.
You see: I hate all babies,
And I mean every single tot!
All they’re really good for
Is dripping yucky snot.
That Beatrice, she looked stupid
I’m sorry, but that’s the truth.
And in that NY Yankees cap
She was ugly as Babe Ruth.
Babies are like homeless
They beg and beg for more
They don’t pay any taxes
They puke all over the floor.
I know I sound grouchy
With this tantrum, with my snit.
But my mother gave me formula
And this little brat gets tit.