They keep it so well hidden <br />This trait they won’t admit <br />In this family it’s forbidden <br />To ever mention it <br /> <br />Are they fearful of the flow <br />This trait of theirs brings on? <br />Afraid if people know <br />They’d be oh so woebegone? <br /> <br />Their secret hides a social ill <br />It’s an unacceptable addiction <br />This trait results in over-kill <br />It’s an anti-social affliction <br /> <br />Convinced they’ve gone astray <br />They crawl into cocoons <br />It appears it’s not okay <br />Their feasting on dried prunes <br /> <br />To hell with high society <br />This family won’t succumb <br />To hell with snob propriety <br />They won’t switch from prunes to plums <br /> <br />There must be things much worse <br />Though they can’t imagine what <br />Is it really such a curse <br />This secret that they’ve got?<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-family-secret/
