Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Play Date

The children are playing a game,
A game that is naughty, not nice.
But none of them feel any shame.
None of them care who pays the price.
They play in the D.C. playground,
Nancy and John from the same house.
Mitch and Harry make byting sound,
Calling each other names, like louse.
Joe and Barack the bully taunt
The others into frenzied hiss.
The last thing that the grown ups want
Is another four years of this.

We the People need firmly say
"Children who can't be nice, can't play."