Back in the day

Of babysitting and teen lines and friendship pins

I slept my mornings away

Partied my nights with a variety of sins

No responsibility

No cares in my teenage life of sensibility

 

Nobody told me about babies and puppies

 

Babysitting, Big Bucks/No Whammies, and brownies

Living the life on an easy chair

Baby sleeps soundly,

Assaulted into  reality with puppy poop like a nightmare

Brownie fights stomach profoundly

Chocolate loses; brownie throw-up everywhere

Baby wakes with an unhappy dance

Because he just pooped his pants

 

Nobody told me about babies and puppies

 

As I begin to clean the baby up,

I hear a terrifying slurping noise.

The puppy is licking my brownie throw-up.

I throw up again with unflattering poise.

Mom walks in to witness this gallant moment,

I ask, “Are you ready to hear my dog-poop-brownie-throw-up story?”

 

Nobody told me about babies and puppies.