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Through His Eyes<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seven years old and he’s already a frigging know-it-all!<\/p>\n Told him, take yer shower, do it now while ya got the chance.<\/p>\n He don’t like it.\u00a0 He don’t want to go first, wants to get<\/p>\n something from the fridge to drink; turn on the X-box.<\/p>\n He just wants sister to get in there first and let him alone.<\/p>\n He just too damned busy playing and don’t want to stop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Explained to him again that he’s a guy and it takes less time<\/p>\n and less hot water to rinse off a dude than a chick.<\/p>\n Leastways that how it always seemed, the girls<\/p>\n ain’t into quickies, but like to take their time<\/p>\n and get all the grunge off.<\/p>\n The boy just don’t like it, starts crying.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Momma didn’t put up with no fits.<\/p>\n If you gave her even a hint of Lip<\/p>\n She’d slap your face off.<\/p>\n She didn’t put up with bad attitudes<\/p>\n back in the day when parents had balls.<\/p>\n Back in the day when it was okay to get a switch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These days, boys throw themselves to the floor<\/p>\n an start bawling bout how mistreated they be.<\/p>\n If they can’t have instant gratification<\/p>\n they don’t want it ‘lessen you beg them to take it.<\/p>\n Kid, seven year old, sit in the floor and turn his back<\/p>\n to the man just trying to make his life a bit easier;<\/p>\n show him some sense; a bit o wisdom.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sometimes wonder though; if all that he seeing<\/p>\n is four sets of rules made up by big bullies.<\/p>\n There’s momma’s rules, daddy’s rules, nana’s rules and grandpa’s rules.<\/p>\n Four houses and four sets of rules to be played against each other.<\/p>\n Cause he will eventually catch on\u2014already has<\/p>\n started using that line the other day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wondered though if all he understands<\/p>\n is that it’s a grown up world and grownups<\/p>\n have to have their MTV and cappuccinos.<\/p>\n They have to have their marriage and a girl on the side.<\/p>\n Gownups have to have their toys too<\/p>\n and a seven year old is just extra baggage<\/p>\n to be stuffed in the trunk with the rest of the garbage.<\/p>\n Wonder when he’ll pick up the gun.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jack Campbell<\/strong> is a poet and author residing in the small city of Hobbs, NM, USA. \u00a0Mostly, a jack of all trades he has found a passion for writing and storyteller late in his journey in Life. \u00a0At age fifty he is looking forward to the second act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Through His Eyes Seven years old and he’s already a frigging know-it-all! Told him, take yer shower, do it now while ya got the chance. He don’t like it.\u00a0 He don’t want to go first, wants to get something from the fridge to drink; turn on the X-box. He just wants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}