This is just to show you whose boss around here. <br />It’ll keep you on your toes, so to speak, <br />Make you put your best foot forward, so to speak, <br />And give you something to turn your hand to, so to speak. <br />You can face up to it like a man, <br />Or snivvle and blubber like a baby. <br />That’s up to you. Nothing to do with Me. <br />If you take it in the right spirit, <br />You can have a bloody marvelous life, <br />With the great rewards courage brings, <br />And the beauty of accepting your LOT. <br />And think how much good it’ll do your Mum and Dad, <br />And your Grans and Gramps and the rest of the shower, <br />To be stopped being complacent. <br />Make sure they baptise you, though, <br />In case some murdering bastard <br />Decides to put you away quick, <br />Which would send you straight to LIMB-O, ha ha ha. <br />But just a word in your ear, if you’ve got one. <br />Mind you DO take this in the right spirit, <br />And keep a civil tongue in your head about Me. <br />Because if you DON’T, <br />I’ve got plenty of other stuff up My sleeve, <br />Such as Leukemia and polio, <br />(Which incidentally your welcome to any time, <br />Whatever spirit you take this in.) <br />I’ve given you one love-pat, right? <br />You don’t want another. <br />So watch it, Jack.<br /><br />Kingsley Amis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-baby-born-without-limbs/
