I Warn You by Nicanor Parra

that first of all in everything I write
I am hanging from the wing of a fly

that second of all in everything I write
I am hanging from the wing of a fly
or rather I am clinging tooth and nail

that third of all in everything I write
I am hanging from the wing of a fly

etc. etc.

http://www.logosjournal.com/parra_poetry.htm

Ok, this poem has nothing to do with parenting. I've obviously been reading Latin American poets recently. Nicanor Parra is also from Chile. He is a mathematician and a physicist and calls himself an anti-poet. I think he's a total blast. Nothing static, labored or insecure about him. Subject matter includes Hamlet, God, death, death of God, Hamlet laughing at the death of God, the state, and the state of poetry. Fun, fun, fun.