Why?

Why must I,

a child,

be responsible

for knowing everything

about

shit

I

should

not

know?

I don’t want to hear

about the boy that was shot dead

a mile from my high school.

I don’t want to listen

to the men on TV

explain away my rights.

I don’t want to know

how many innocent people have died

in a war across the ocean.

I just

don’t want

to know.