Songs of November 2009 at Elementary Funk
Grates of a neighbour's wrath
Or: How to keep children from falling to their own paralysis while chastising them like an angry old man is wont to do.
Which, as it turns out, is not entirely that much trouble at all. Takes a little thing called the worry of public liability and vicious street shaming.
Open wide, fall inside
As a lone do-gooder child attempts, weakly, to cover up the stormwater drain cover left wide open by others, you call out the motives of those who would leave him there all alone cleaning up their mess. Be careful to steer this wayward child into stepping away and at all times knowing that it's best for him to not fall head first into a metre high sewer cavity.
Spotting the fake do-gooder, for just this afternoon at least, losing his grip several times, the others will naturally want to gawk and cycle their bikes around in a vulturesque menace. Behaviour poor, socially voiding in group think, nobody wanting to touch the failures of their own doing.
On a quiet enough street, the resonance makes it clear to those with working ears and ear pieces that something is both amiss and ajar. Bad parenting has come afoul of the stormwater drain cover and a foot is likely to lose it.
Continuing with the forthright bellow, the course of wrought iron rights itself in a meek fashion. The level is made unholey again and off they saunter to stay out of the field of vision for one more day.
If it's possible to draw out the parent of the child at fault, feast on the palpable satisfaction of their tepid act of remorse (as close as they even know how for they are void at all times) as they try and cover up their mistakes. At least this once shutting them up good and proper.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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