Flirting and Disaster

you do not teach a child
how to find the mouth
you only help to tell
what should be eaten
and what should not

don’t fall with your head
be close and be far away
vote and make sure it counts,
get a long ride from a car
that doesn’t have a meter

out of all the choices
you chose to dance naked,
false, neuter or compromise?
deal with your result of
flirting with disaster.

Tomide Abdul