Oh child, oh infant
if only you slept well
you would be happiness
personified. You, my joy,
are the most fascinating
child on Earth, I swear
and yet you can scream
oh you can scream
an extraordinary ascending
rupture in the night
sufficient to scare
the local mountain lion,
to send the desert foxes
back into their dens trembling,
to give the coyotes pause
and to silence the cry of the peacocks,
yes, a beautiful, powerful
arbitrary, murderous
hollering bellow to horrify
a horror movie itself into silence.
I'm so proud. I'm so impressed.
Please don't do it again.
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