Everyone Grab A Spoon - POEM

If you’re driving to work

You’ll need one

You’ll have to remind someone

That the traffic light has indeed

Changed from red to green

And it is indeed, their turn to go

You might need one

When someone decides to cross

A triple lane, dual-carriage way

With cars oncoming

In both fucking directions

like Moses

crossing the Red Sea

You might need one

When someone stops their car

In the middle of the road

To have a long, drawn out conversation

With another person who

Is also parked

In the middle of the road

You’d think

That you’d only need one

To feed your two-year old

But these days

It’s the adults

The big people

The ones with supposed

Common sense

Who need to be

 Spoon-fed

spoon-feed

verb

past tense: spoon-fed; past participle: spoon-fed

1. feed with a spoon.

   "he is spoon-feeding the chimpanzee as one might feed a baby"

   • provide (someone) with so much help or information that they do not need to think for themselves.

     "certain students enjoy finding out things for themselves; others prefer being spoon-fed"

© Dean R Boic 2016 (image courtesy of izquotes.com - quote by Agatha Christie, 'spoon-feed' definition courtesy of Google)