When the Youngest of Wards

When the youngest of wards
at last presses his lids
in a way that all too tightly gives
his obedience to nap time,

we surmisse the first of schemes
its immemorial hatching.
Later on he may well suppose
the dupes he calls mom and dad

are savy in means beyond
the sly way they don
indulgent smiles, and which,
in turn, bespeak their prayers.

As for my avuncular part,
it's always with a lifted heart
that I sometimes catch You too
in pretending not to hear.


Selected Poems of A.T.Aimonte
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