Kindling

Sparks

     Quietly,

    like a good boy, answer to

  throes of inconsistency 

with the malice of infected dairy products

    towards tolerable spheres of impudence and 

     Quietly,

    like a good boy, 

  tear up at the sight of 

        fiction

and never cry out for 

     Quietly,

    like a good boy,

           grab father's shotgun

          it's time you learned the price of 

     Quietly,

    like a good boy,

                learn to forget your sister's eyelashes

and the rolling of water in that cramped 

     Quietly,

    like a good boy,

           forget to remember the bread and cold

      and remember to forget that he was once a good man.

          

Author's Note

Criticism is always welcome any and all.

Reviews

[Katrina Mckeown]

perfectly penned, great use of imagery.

[Coyote Poetry]

Better to raise hell and be arrested then to be quiet and be a good boy. I like the flow of statements and the true ending. Thank you for the excellent poetry.
Coyote