Dastardly Deeds Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

With publicity accomplished.
And a promotion hyped,
By all types of media.
These dastardly deeds,
Done in front of our youth to see...
To claim to have the 'majority' offended,
Has yet to end the effects of them.
Since many have chosen,
To believe themselves wholesome...
With a perceived innocence.

'I tell you...
One day they are going to have problems with those kids.'

But yet a questioning of misdeeds and their origin,
Leaves those behind bolted doors...
Alarm systems and guns to protect delusions,
Without any attention prioritized to give...
To their own self reflections and heightened blemishes.
To Instead peep from locked and closed windows,
With their neighbors on their phones to gossip...
About who is doing what while their children sit,
Downloading quietly places on the internet...
To purchase new weapons to get.

'...and not only that,
But I heard they made their children do chores.
And today children, like my own...
Should be encouraged to be children.
With a doing what today children do.
Exactly!
Be left alone to play their video games.
I tell you...
One day they are going to have problems with those kids.'