926: Generating Problems

 A HOUSE DIVIDED (August 19) —  

There are those who say children should be in school.

To which we reply, “Really?"

These inborn immigrants are after our jobs

and although we do love them dearly,

deep down we know they want to replace us,

take all that is rightfully ours,

that they plan to, if they can’t erase us,

place us in “rest homes” somewhere on Mars

where we’ll never see our grandchildren again

as we lapse into senility,

while they, ungrateful, live in our houses

and treat us with outright hostility.

So, no, we say. No school for them.

Let them figure it out on their own.

We want them out of our homes!

We do not need them. It costs so to feed them. 

What were thinking? Why did we breed them?

Put them in cages somewhere on the border.

Get them out now. THAT IS AN ORDER!

№ 626: Worthless Thousand Words

Photo of Drowned Migrants Captures Pathos of Those Who Risk It All (Paywall)

The bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were found in the Rio Grande on Monday. Credit Julia Le Duc/Associated Press

IZEENUTING, US (June 26)

Pictures of children

dead on the border

should be unlawful,

they make us feel awful.

Why can't they die

back in the jungle

or in the slum

where they come from?

If I had my wall

thirty feet tall

you'd never have to

see them at all.

[updated 6/27/2019, 1:30 am]
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Tip of the hat to N.I.S. for (sort of) suggesting this subject.

№ 625.1: EXTRA! No Soft Soap (and a blanket denial)

Trump official: detained children do not need soap and blankets – video 

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DISNEYLAND (June 25)

Kids, we all know, love being dirty.

Especially if they are poor.

And if they’re poor

they are totally used

to having to sleep on the floor

which is usually dirt

and therefore concrete

to them must seem a holiday treat.

And as to blankets,

they don’t need those

in summer in Texas

they don’t even need clothes.

Providing tooth paste?

A total waste.

We're talking baby teeth

in the first place.

Food? They need some,

I get your gist.

We do give them gruel

like in Oliver Twist.

Really, good grief,

this “news” is fake.
If we cave on this
next thing they'll want cake!

№ 620: What Happened To The Tots (sort of an answer to question posed by Noël Coward c. 1955)

PAINED PARENTHOOD, June 18

Telling children stories that end
“and they lived happily ever after”

does not prepare them, I think,
to live on the brink of ne'er ending disaster.

Better to say, “Sometimes they laughed,
sometimes they cried,
and after a while all of them died.
There is, by the way, no ‘ever after’.
That sound you can't hear. . .
canned sitcom laughter.

“Life has some good points,
though it will disappoint you,

leaving you empty. . .so

forgo expectations or set them low.

“And leave lots of room
for more doom and gloom,
both of which are
(always) safe to assume.”

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