Children? Anonimo | 27-12-2007 | ENG
Children? You want children? I don’t like them.
Children. I don’t feel so bad about it.
Plenty of other people like them and most children grow up so it’s not as though I’ve decided against anyone for all time.
I just never know what to say to them…
I never was much a child myself and they scare me.
People always say that children tell the truth; but I don’t think they do.
People say they tell the truth, but those people are stupid.
I don’t think that children are truthful, just terribly candid.
Whenever I’m with one I’m afraid its going to point at me and say something humiliating.
Plus, they’re boring. Intensely boring and you’re constantly being forced to marvel at the tedious things they do.
“Johnny counted to five today”. Five.
I don’t know what to say to that. I stand there.
People hate me for that.
By the time Johnny gets to ten I’m out of their lives.
But if you want children we can have one, but you were talking in the abstract…
Note
Written by a man upon a paper tablecloth in a restaurant in Bleecker Street.
Manhattan. N.Y.