He caused such a noise, such outcry, such a racket
from the time he crawled, had words & was walking
& with every sibling that arrived within our midst
there was discord between them and between us
from a knock on the door with unfortunate news
of the fact that a boy was perched upon the roof
to his sisters upset as they walked into a bedroom
to see the scurry of a frog causing a commotion
to the neighbor stating your son is in the alley
ought not to be experimenting with matches ought he
to the surprise knock of the police at the door
with a number of hood ornaments in his possession
to the night of upheaval he came home quite sodden
that as I thought in dismay of all the pandemonium
of the day he was born with strawberry blond hair
never I thought ‘the rumpus will now begin’ and it did
© June 2017 Renee Espriu
This is in response to Jamie Dede’s Wednesday prompt. You can read other poet’s response to this prompt at https://jamiededes.com/2017/06/07/this-wild-rumpus-of-life-a-poem-and-your-wednesday-writing-prompt. The photo below was taken from the Morgue File & Digitized by myself.
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