Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Family Outing

It was my birthday, so I took
My 4 kids out for a nice lunch.
The kids said I shouldn't cook,
No Alice of the Brady Bunch.
I needed to pick up some cash.
My teenage son he'd do it.
At a gas station, in a flash,
He was in and out with the hit.
Three more stations we had to rob,
To get enough money to eat.
It turned out to be quite a job
To afford a nice birthday treat.

A happy birthday, it was not.
The cops chased us and we got caught.