Comic observations by a ten-year old
on the perplexites of human biological functions.
Beneath the sink
in my house of three sisters
is a box or two of mysterious origin
tucked way in the back as if
trying to hide a treasure
funny little paper wrapped tubes
with a string attached
mini-rockets of some kind,
that they only pay attention to
once in a while, but then I never
know what becomes of them
these tubular cardboard dilemma's
lying in neat rows like sardines unserved
I shake my head and quickly shove
them back beneath the copper pipes
far below the surface of the
sink and mirror above
And then there are the panty shields???
I know of course what panties are even at 10
but shields??? When I think of shields
I picture a quarter inch thick, steel plate
bent to deflect cannon balls, guided missiles
and six inch swords but panty shields...
what the heck are they protecting down there?
Of course I've always been
the curious adolescent.
even at a much younger age I would
explore the forbidden fruits
it's not my first encounter with
the strange things stored round here
I used to love to open my
Daddies very top drawer
that he always assumed
was too high for me to reach
chairs are a wonderful invention
that boosted many a child's
level of education to a higher
degree of comprehension of life
inside that drawer I would find
these round, slippery, rubber things
encased in a bright foil pack,
they would wiggle and squirm in
the square that held them
so very snugly in their liquid place,
it piqued my curiosities..so much
that I'd further my study
I used to get a needle and poke them
to see if any one of those little suckers
were alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"That's probably why Mom had
five kids and a hysterectomy!"