This must mean you have reached adult manhood <br />the way you have perfected the poker face, when you <br />announced Mom, I did bad at school; I saw a dead- <br />pan expression of despair in your eyes, mirroring <br />the lacklustre lines around your father’s mouth, my <br />spirits sagged – until you pressed the report into <br />my unwilling hands and I exclaimed This is not bad <br />at all, quite the contrary! guffaws of laughter rang <br />out, shining eyes of father and son eclipsing the sun; <br />you are a perfect Sphinx, my son, the mark of the <br />cool, detached, grown man – well done!<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/2011-04-13-a-perfect-sphinx/
