“Put your clothes away!”
Mom yells.
“I don’t like to find,
Little “Presents” every day!”

“Catherine,” Dad says.
“Studying math for only an hour
Isn’t okay.
You need to do more
To change that B into an A!”

Hold on a minute! Hold on!
I want to say.
I need you to shut up and listen
Today!

Between
School, sports
Bus Rides, friends
Enemies, Teachers
Volunteering
And everything else
I only have a speck
Of unstructured,
Unobstructed,
Free time in my day!

So don’t have a spaz attack
If I forget to make my bed!
If you had the daily burden I do,
I swear,
You’d be
Dead!

So shut up and listen,
To what I have to say.
I know that you’re thinking,
“I’ve got more to do.”
But I guess you’ve forgotten
That I have puberty too!
You said before,
“I used to be a teenager too.”
But are you sure?
I’m beginning to doubt you!

So shut up,
Please.
Shut up,
Please.

Today, I just want you
To please,
Go away!