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bad parenting
I read the paper, watch the news,
and get calls from friends that I
haven’t heard from in years
It’s all the same information about
death no matter where I get it from
No one is dying at the right age and
from the right things anymore
I see six year olds dying from
cancer and seventy year old women
dying on the operating table during
a breast augmentation
I see twenty year olds dying from
drug overdoses and sixty year olds
dying from being shot while robbing
a bank
Only a handful of deaths ever come
at the right time from the right
causes
Just the other day, an old relative
died from years of drinking
This was a much older person and
had been doing it for years, so it
was expected
It tore my heart out, but it was still
anticipated for a long time
I remember when my sister died at
twenty-seven from a car accident,
that same relative said how unfair
it was that he had been trying to
kill himself for years and then
something like that happens to a
perfectly healthy and wonderful
person
Well, I don’t know if it’s Father
Time or Mother Nature doing
these things
I don’t know if they’re scared or
just fucking lazy, but either way
it’s just bad parenting
© 2008 Leigh Pierce-Wi
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