SHAPE WOOD SON

- pa i dont need to go to big school do i ?

- why
  not
  son ?

- cos you said

- what
  did
  i
  say
  son ?

- thats its just consumerist conditioning
  and dumbed down revisionism
  and it kills childrens beautiful spirits
  
- was
  i
  drinking
  son ?

- yes pa
  and you said its lethally reductive . . .

- well
  you
  still
  have
  to
  go . . .

- so i can become a docile sheepman
  led by my innocent nose
  to the trough of obsolescent electronics
  and populist malleable politics ?

- yes . . .
  i'm
  sorry
  son

- will i learn about parental hypocrisy pa ?

- if
  you
  do
  sociology
  son

- but i cant do that till sixth form pa

- then
  learn
  to
  work
  with
  your
  hands
  son

- ok pa

- shape
  wood
  son

  and
  let
  the
  rest
  be

  like
  its
  all
  just
  bad
  weather

- ok pa

- thats
  the
  best
  i
  got
  son

  i'm
  sorry

- thats ok pa
  you dont run the world
  shall i get you a beer pa ?

from journal.neilgaiman.com