little kids

Malvina Reynolds

Little kids drive me out of my mind,
Out of my mind.
They re so great.
They re as full of potential
As an acorn is of oak tree,
They can be anything at all,
A dancer, a prophet,
A lover, a singer,
A dreamer, a refuge,
A bird on the wing,
Anything, depending where they fall,
A madman, a drunk in a dirty doorway,
Or the chairman of the board of the First National Bank.