Miss Ida will try you, this is certain.

She learns the rules by bending them
like an angler testing a fly rod.

Tact she learns like the sailor
sailing into the wind.

She wants what she wants
when she wants
and wants to know why
she can’t have it
when she wants it.

its the terrible two
blues. everything is
so dramatic
ever so operatic.

the anxieties of growing up
puts her into a funk,
makes her cranky,
ready to make a fuss.

This growing up
is not easy to comprehend
the rules are handed down

most of them unexplained,
something they will say
you will understand
one day when you grow up.

the problem is growing up
never stops. No, it never stops.

this might make you
quite depressed
but consider the alternative.

you wouldn’t want to be
a two-and-a-half year old
forever.