Your First Jokes

A Sonnet

But your first jokes were about farts of course,
making fun of daddy for ripping toots,
a little five year old, just being cute,
laughed at the saying, “pee like a race horse.”
This silly girl all wiggles and giggles
would laugh so hard that she would wet the bed
at the joke, “knock, knock” “who’s there?” “doo doo head!”
All was a delight to be that little.
I wished I had laughed at all this with you
instead of scolding and shushing your gas,
meeting smart mouths with a swat on the ass,
just because it’s true, that pee-pee poo-poo
	comes out of all of us like loud laughter
	that doesn’t stay with us ever after.