What was it
with all the adults
in Charlie Brown's neighborhood?

Did they think it was funny,
giving him rocks
while all the other kids
got candy?

Did they feel
he hadn't suffered enough
what with his lumpy, bald head
and oddly anthropomorphic dog?

Did Lucy's parents
never stop to wonder
how she got to be
such a sadistic little monster
who might benefit
from a shrink of her own,

or why their delusional young son
was so fixated on that ratty old blanket?

I know I'm too old, now, to obsess
over the motives
of fictional people
that no one's ever seen

but if it gets me through
this bored meeting
then I think I can live more comfortably
with the obsession than without it.

- what's that sir?
- you need the numbers for the Johnson account?

-Good Grief!!

06/19/2008

Author's Note: ...also, were those people unable to get diction lessons?

Posted on 06/20/2008
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