Hamster Head
First published in "Blots" issue 10.01.
Everything I need to know about raising my kid I learned from the movies. I had a real problem with my kid talkin’ back to me. I’d tell him to do sumpthin’, he’d sass back. “Take the trash out.” “But I’m in the middle of washing dishes,” he’d whine. “Go fold the laundry.” “But I’m so sore from chopping firewood.”
Well, since he woke up that one morning and found his hamster’s head lyin’ at the end of his bed he don’t sass back none—of course he don’t even really speak much at all now, but that’s alright too.
THE END
Everything I need to know about raising my kid I learned from the movies. I had a real problem with my kid talkin’ back to me. I’d tell him to do sumpthin’, he’d sass back. “Take the trash out.” “But I’m in the middle of washing dishes,” he’d whine. “Go fold the laundry.” “But I’m so sore from chopping firewood.”
Well, since he woke up that one morning and found his hamster’s head lyin’ at the end of his bed he don’t sass back none—of course he don’t even really speak much at all now, but that’s alright too.
THE END