Grounded
"Later that even'ng when pushed to the brink,
His parents ignored him while having a drink.
Then did they wonder and hazard to think,
"To life without William," they said with a wink."
This is an excerpt from my book "The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes" (W. W. Norton, 2019).
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