Beat Us / Join Us

When you get a little older and the program becomes
your way of life too then maybe you’ll be allowed
the privileges of a real human being, such as we
enjoy. As of now, you are but a small mule, not
capable of much in the way of load carrying
but we’ll feed you anyway and maybe at some point
you’ll be of use to us. Your brain is of its own accord.
Since we have to pay taxes anyway, you’re going to school.
We do all the work plus all the thinking, and this
is beginning to include your sister. So don’t start complaining
until you’ve once really impressed us with a job
well done or kept plenty quiet mealtimes six
days running. In the end I’m sure you will
get with us on this, and when we are in
that day, we will smile upon you and
all will be aglow and the impending loss
of your feathered virginity, the actual sound
of your gyrating heart being wrenched out for display,
will be subject to permanent delay, but today
this punishment I mete out to ya before the football game
entirely composed of boiled words with a
particularly bitter taste that will stay with you
if not forever at least until you lose your mind.

David Crowell