Grow Up! Poem by John Sensele

Clean up your act, boy
Lest your morsel of grub you should miss
Scrambling for the toy
You grab from little bro with a diss.

Act your age, lass
Lest you should cling to barbie doll
Dreaming you were not in class
Till you score a gory own goal.

Get off your high horse, buddy
Lest society should send to Coventry
Till you learn manners from Hardy
To return to the bosom of the elite in a triumphant entry.

Pull yourself together, damsel
Lest society should confiscate the wig
You wear on your pate like a gazelle
Thinking small, but acting big.

Come back home, daddy
Lest the family should write you off
For acting like a maladjusted dandy
Suffering from a conjugal cough.y