The Toddler

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  • Childhood
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  • Devotion
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  • Humor
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  • Family

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    A glut of collisions does not a quitter make--- Your Colorguard.

    The Toddler
    up at the crack of dawn
    we yawn
    and behold you
    standing in your crib
    you grin
    it must be a sin---
    to be happy like that, so early
    the world is yours
    to explore
    Everything we own is yours
    guaranteed and insured
    so why are you so hell bent
    to destroy it?
    for God's sake
    please use the toilet
    into something again
    you grin
    our babe of a thousand faces
    you win
    Who could resist your charms?
    we'll watch all the while
    Please sleep in my arms
    you smile
    surely you jest?
    into something again
    just a little rest?
    with no timeouts
    How in the world?
    you explode again
    at 6:00 a.m.


    1988

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    Cryptics500 commented on The Toddler

    03-12-2015

    Movies or sleep?
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    Cryptics500 commented on The Toddler

    03-12-2015

    Mind your heel Lisa BP
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    Cryptics500 commented on The Toddler

    03-12-2015

    Over Roger Miller's dead brained body
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    Cryptics500 commented on The Toddler

    03-12-2015

    Want my Braveheart and Gins baby bean back-- The Three Blind Mice
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    Cryptics500 commented on The Toddler

    03-12-2015

    Too much overtime
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    Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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