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Rear end Rearing

Carl Papa Palmer

“I’ll never raise my voice at you.
We’ll discuss everything and
always be friends, solve any
issue without fear of punishment.
I won’t force you to do anything
that you do not want to do.”

My daughter says all this to us,
her parents, through her new born
daughter. Vows to bring her little
girl up the proper way, not the
way we had obviously failed. As
we sit at our dining table, teenage
brother takes it all in, looks at me,
waits for my comment.

My reply is to answer, also through
my new grand daughter, with no doubt
as to whom it is directed. “Maybe I
should just engrave these thoughts
right here on our dining room wall.”

Three years later, pregnant with
her second daughter, my daughter
sits beside her first daughter, who
now sits alone and eats by herself.
“I have eaten all the veggies that I can,
Grandma, but I sure would like another
one of your buttered biscuits and a
refill on my glass of milk, please.”

To which my daughter responds,
“Listen here, Miss Priss, you will eat
everything on your plate. Don’t you
start crying. I’ll give you something
to cry about. Fill up that fork. Stop
whining right this minute. I’ve had
enough. Get over here. Come on. I’ve
gone through this before. Let’s go to
the bathroom, young lady, right now.”

We hear everything through thin walls.
They soon return to the table. Not a word
is said as I smile and point to the memory
engraved upon our dining room wall.

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