Little Boys and Girls

Season 3.11: Without a notion of what we’ve done.

And little boys and girls,
Will wake up in their loving beds,
And toddle off to school;
Oversized backpacks, 
Light up size 5 shoes,
Bouncing up the steps

Together, 
Without a notion of what we’ve done.

And other little boys and girls 
Will wake up in hotel rooms, 
And others in prefabs, 
And others in tents, 
And others in bombed out ruins, 
And others in stiff white cotton cocoons,
And others in the wailing arms of someone even more helpless than you, 
And others in coffins made of scorched concrete and warped steel rods, 
And others in skin stretched taut and raw across their bones,

Together, 
Without a notion of why we’re doing this.

And others will wake up 
In yet another terrifying photo, 
Squeezed into your social stream
Between the kittens and the influencers 
And the influencer kittens.

All this life
    swipe
        consumed.  

All this death, 
    swipe
        consumed.  

All this hate
    swipe
        consumed.   

All this suffering
    swipe
        consumed.  

Consumed; with a tut, 
Between the opened fly 
And the porcelain flush,  
Before we get back to the morning rush 
Of work emails and sports results. 

Together, 
Without a notion of what we’re doing at all.

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Read more from Season 3…

This is the third season of Notes and Noises. If you liked this (or didn’t) why not take a quick look at some of the other posts in the series:

1. Wake Up!

2. All That I Could Do

3. Home

4. To That Tree Atop The Hill

5. On The Way Home

6. Weeds

7. Pauses

8. This Time

9. Be Ready To Do The Thing

10. Tar Isteach

11. Little Boys and Girls

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