The perfect nuclear family (Ekphrastic poem)

The perfect nuclear family

The acceptable social unit

Man and wife with two point four kids

Whatever that actually means

Waving flags and singing national anthems proudly

As young boys go to war and comback

Disfigured and tormented screwed up men

But the nuclear family don’t witness the horrors

That the theater of war has in store

They’ll send off their own children

If they are sold the lie that a war is worth fighting for.

Meanwhile back in suburbia husband trims the lawn

And mother’s in the kitchen cooking up a storm

The kids are playing nicely and are polite ty o one another

They fit the perfect family role model ideom

But the truth is when the sun g oes down mother hits the gin

Father’s on Internet porn working out his frustrations

The kids are fighting and arguing

And the teen girl is self harming

The boy is smoking a sneaky joint while bullying and online trolling

The perfect nuclear family during the day seems so ideal

But when seen after the sun goes down the truth becomes real

They are dysfunctional and smothered by tiles not authentic

They’re just trying to fit into societies mold

And its sending them demented

And one day in the paper I read Father shot himself

And them with his gun

All because it all started breaking down

And their dream life was being undone

The perfect nuclear family

Exploded and went on a melt d own quite atomic

The perfect family unit you see is nothing but a tormenting joke.

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