Just Got Rid of My Parents

I just got rid of my parents

Couple hours apart, that was that

Lit a candle, said a prayer

Shut the door, picked up my hat

Now your parents show up

A lament with no end

Hands moving in cupboards

Like they’d been here now and then

Your mother humming to the sink

Your father finding his chair

I watch the house decide

What to keep, how, and where

I just got rid of my parents

No longer sure where I stand

I just got rid of my parents

Why do I feel fourteen again?

Your mother’s fixing things aren’t broke

Your father in bed with a cold

The house has rules I never noticed

Till I sat in the wrong place over there

All my artwork vanished by Tuesday

Disappeared without much of a fight

Not sure what’s happening here

I just know something ain’t right

The picture where my desk was

Shows someone with your nose

Not a bad look, I’m just being Petty

Leave it right there, I suppose

I just got rid of my parents

No longer sure where I stand

I just got rid of my parents

Why do I feel fourteen again?

I’m standing in line in my own kitchen

Waiting to see who goes next

Some thievery rigged my rulebook

Don’t remember we ever kept

I set my mug by the window

It gets moved an inch to the right

No one says why, no one needs to

I head upstairs out of sight

Came back down with a reason

I leave with a list instead

I just got rid of my parents

Now I’m suddenly fourteen

Again

I just got rid of my parents

No longer sure where I stand

I just got rid of my parents

Why do I feel fourteen again?

Tell your mother the soup worked her magic

Tell the dogs we’re forming a band

Tell me this is only temporary

Then hand me back my land

On second thought,

Better idea:

Here’s my house keys,

take the place,

I’m taking the band!

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