Don't Try To Make Children Grow Up

How Many More Years Will Our Educators Continue To Lecture Us On The Evils Of Whipping Children Until They Bring Home High Grades? Year After Year We Listen To These Fellows Tell Us That It Is Not The Grade That Counts But The Development Of The Child's Personality. After The Lecture They Go Back To All The Best Schools And Reject Our Children Because They Have C Averages.

Is Fuel Efficiency Really What We Need Most Desperately? I Say That What We Really Need Is A Car That Can Be Shot When It Breaks Down.

I Gave Up On New Poetry Myself 30 Years Ago When Most Of It Began To Read Like Coded Messages Passing Between Lonely Aliens In A Hostile World.

It's Good For The Soul To Hear Yourself As Others Hear You, And Next Time Maybe, Just Maybe, You Will Not Talk So Much, So Loudly, So Brilliantly, So Charmingly, So Utterly Shamelessly Foolishly.

Long Words, Fat Talk They May Tell Us Something About Ourselves. Has The Passion For Fat In The Language Increased As Self-confidence Has Waned?