This Be Not Standard Metrical Prosody
Mothers, fathers, or anyone serving in loco parentis,
Have a tendency to leave their children non compos mentis.
Piaget has demonstrated that this phenomenon happens because
Parental behavior tends to reinforce the formation of character flaws.
The parental units, however, during their own pre-adolescence,
Were themselves rendered non compos mentis by their parents' premature senescence
Which revealed itself in a series of violent mood-swings that all too often
Ranged from affection to wishing one's spouse were immediately in his or her own coffin.
Human misery may be productively likened to a track-and-field baton.
The runner stops, his contribution complete, but the misery races on.
The data have been collected and collated, and the results are not abstruse:
Leave home as soon as possible, and do not reproduce.
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