Sunday, June 16, 2013

Happy Turkish Father's Day

Under the shady tents of summer
we lounged and read and argued
while they loaded the tear gas
masks and stun guns these fathers
still trying to beat obedience
into their children when it’s been
clearly shown for ages to be both
ineffective and mutually destructive
when will these stubborn fathers learn
to sit down and listen to the future
a place their children actually will
occupy when they’re long gone

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