Little girls with
Hearts dotting their i’s
Perfect bubble letters
Letters like a mother’s
Princess curls
Pretty pictures of
Pretty families
That get hung up in hallways
Little girls with
Chicken scratch handwriting
Letters like their father’s
Stupid spaghetti straight hair
And boyish bangs
Napkin scribbles of
Eyes that aren't quite right and
Flimsy stick families
Napkins aren't hung up in hallways
On walls
Or refrigerators
They clean up messes
They wipe up spills
They become stained
But thank god life isn't drawn on napkins
Thank god life is perfect and clean and never
Stained or *****