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My Dear Sons and Daughters

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Fall in love with everything
but people.
Fall in love with ideas: anarchy
and LaVeyan Satanism.
Fall in love with solitary back-packing
through Israel or Mexico.
Fall in love with gamma radiation
or tiger-taming, MMA cage fighting
or free-climbing the Rocky Mountains,
but do not fall in love
with people.

People will want you
for your similarities to one
or more of their parents;
they will want you
for the outline, the concept of you;
they will want you
because you want them –
they will not know
what they want.

People will take the bed you shared
and fuck other people
in the barely cooled indent
of your absent body
(they will also take your cat,
leaving you with scarred hands
and nothing for them to stroke).

They will promise to never leave you
and maybe they won’t,
but they will buckle you in with them
on the bipolar-coaster,
left flying off unfinished tracks,
and you will have to jump,
parachuteless.

They will be perfect
except for little things –
answering their phone during dinner,
taking their mother’s word as scripture,
sleeping with their socks on –
and you will be tempted,
so very tempted,
to love people,
but trust me when I tell you
you’d be better off
in love with tightrope walking
between skyscrapers.
Well, my prof really only had minor, you-can-try-this-if-you-want suggestions for this piece, and it seems to have been an over-all success with the class, particularly in terms of its relatability. However, I know the internet excels at finding things to critique, so I shall let you at it. :)
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Karinta's avatar
Hmmm. The message has been turned on its head in this poem, or rather the usual message has bee inverted.