adults are weird
 
adults are weird
sometimes
it’s like they’re from
a totally different planet
where all the rules
are complicated
and don’t make any sense
like they want you to speak Latin
or Martian
when all you want to do is play
 
when they ask you
how are you?
you are meant to say
fine thank you
which makes them happy
and then they go away
even if a sabre-toothed tiger
has just bitten off both your legs
and your blood is splurting and splattering all over the carpet
 
but if you said
just go away!
they’d go apeshit crazy
and all the volcanoes
on their planet would erupt
and vomit gynormous dollops of molten lava
all over the cities and villages and towns
frying every one into
freaky frozen statues
like that volcano did in Pompei
thousands of years ago
when everyone spoke Latin

and maybe one day
thousands of years in the future
some children just like you and me
will discover their freaky and fried and frozen bodies
and put them in a museum
with a sign that says

These Are Adults
They Are Fine Thank You
 
only it would be written in
a totally different language