the answer to the problems

Why don’t we go home,

Watch TV and sit on our couch?

Quit reading books, go for walks, or using our mouths

Text every question instead of calling our spouse

Teach our children to back down and to model a mouse

So when their teacher asks

A question in class

They have to pass

And get harassed by students who laugh

So they walk home with tears in their eyes

And when they arrive

Their parents ask how was your day?

They reply a lie

And say “the same as usual”

Then they slink to their bedroom

To go and bite their cuticles

And think suicide is the only solution to the problem

While their parents watching TV and huffing solvents

While the little girls found the answer to her problems-

Lying face down to the ground beside an empty bottle

Hanging from a beam in her bedroom from some dirty laundry

oct 2010