Thursday, July 14, 2011

Teenagers...

"I won't do it!" she yelled, with a tone quite unwise,
as Gene looked at her, a questioning look in his eyes.

His daughter, most recently, had turned 13,
and now almost every other word she said was just plain mean.

She refused to comply to any behests,
and yet she made countless requests!

He'd ask her, so nicely, to organize her laundry,
to which she would sigh--dramatically expressing her quandary.

Then she'd say, oh so sweetly, "Daddy, please, buy me those shoes?"
but he knew that her kindess was only a ruse.

"No honey, you're too unhelpful to be givin such a provision,"
so she'd squint, hatefuly, and look upon him with derision.

And occasionally he'd say, "Please don't let your time go to waste,"
and she'd narrow her eyes, and look at him with distaste.

"Oh, please, PLEASE! Get me that necklace??"
"No sweetie," he'd tell her, "your attitude lately has been too reckless."

Then other times, he'd request,
"Could you please do the dishes? I really need to rest."

And she'd yell, "Oh fine, just make ME do the dishes!"
And she'd stomp and shout and be just plain vicious.

Whenever she'd asked to go hang out with friends,
he'd replied, "Well, that depends..."

"Did you clean your room, like I asked you to do?"
"No," she'd say, "But why does it matter to you?"

So he'd have to say, with a tone of regret,
"Nope, then. Sorry--haven't earned that privelege yet."

Some days he'd ask, "Could you please make us dinner? and maybe a pie?"
Then she'd kick, and yell, and sigh sigh SIGH.

One day he asked if she'd be a doll and sweep,
and she'd said, with "the look", "YOU'RE SUCH A *beep*"

Everything he asked, she scorned and dismissed,
and, quite frankly, he was starting to get pissed.

He'd had it--HE HAD--he didn't know WHAT to do!
His hormonal teen daugher was making him blue!

So one day he decided to end his despair,
her blatant teen angst was just plain unfair.

So he'd tell her: "Darling, I love you, but could you please abstain?"
"For it seems to me that all you do is complain."

And she'd whine--he was sure--and clench her teeth,
but maybe, just maybe, she'd be changed underneath.

So he told her--quite plainly--to please change her mien,
for her love and daughterly affection for him was perpetually unseen.

But--to his surprise--all she said was, "Whatever Dad, you're just lazy!"
for a daughter she could drive him quite crazy!


Inspirational Quote of the Day: "Gene looked at her, a tone of surprise in his eyes," Slightly Ajar by Helen Wilcox

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