Brother

(Vincent, Five Years Old, Paris, 1945 by Willy
Ronis, 1910-2009, French photographer)

What can one say? Little brothers can be such pests.

BROTHER

I had a little brother
And I brought him to my mother
And I said I wanted another
Little brother for a change.
But she said don’t be a bother
So I took him to my father
And I said this little bother
Of a brother’s very strange.
But he said one little brother
Is exactly like another
And every little brother
Misbehaves a bit he said.
So I took the little bother
From my mother and my father
And I put the little bother
Of a brother back to bed.

~ Mary Ann Hoberman, born 1930, American poet