word to the wise poem #3

not mentioning any names or anything
but teenage kids here’s a warning word:
if you ask a parent for money to go to
the fair and you’re given admission the
cost of elephant ears turkey legs rides on
stomach lurching ludicri etc and you
come home money spent saying you had a
grand time at the fair you had better check
around before the parent hears the next
morning that the fair had been evacuated
empty a bomb scare there wasn’t any fair

This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2016.