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love is not love when love
Fashions nooses around
the house to show dismay to contrive arguments
in order to debate the merits of conflict
to talk and talk and talk
never to just shut up
In the grocery store mother and daughter show
their verbal jousting skills
in order to discuss openly their struggle
with each other they seethe
with contempt and dislike to find no common ground
probably for the best we disrespect children
Leave the matter alone
you say the children know
nothing about raising dysfunctional parents
we cannot raise ourselves
let alone teach children
who reveal our values to everyone around
Teach adults what children
already know so well
Everyone is equal even if we decide
to treat someone special
Remove the need to hate
to pluck a white daisy
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Kiss and make up then buy
the cat litter you told your kid you can't afford
who in the fuck am I
I ask myself to butt in to involve myself
in their hot mess one aisle over hidden away
their engaged agression
Little philosophy
remains in my pea brain
To stay away and take the high road to observe
with my ears not my tongue
an anthropologist
Even if I knew what
exactly to tell them
Really to you believe
they would listen to me
a stranger from abroad
unqualified to judge
to get caught up in games
I really know nothing
about just bite my tongue
and bide my time until the wickedness is gone
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