Baby Bear
Dan Sniff
Your brain is a baby bear
A baby bear with no hair
It's a bare baby bear, baby
Wisdom is the hair
But you gotta grow that hair, baby
You gotta bare that burden
Bear that bare baby bear, buddy
Bear the burden with your bare arms, baby
It may wander from the den
It may play in the poppy paddies
It may even take the train of thought
To nowheresville
But you gotta bear with it, brother
You gotta bear that baby bear burden
You gotta bare that bare baby bear with bare arms
Cause it’s gonna need some hair come winter
Mama bear can’t be caught napping
With her hair stacking lacking
Cause then baby bear gets to packing
Before you know it, he’s out the door
He's hooting and wailing
He's punching and stealing
Façade peeling, innocence reeling
Listening to punk rock, on the slump dock, with a funk in his walk
He's shaven his own damn hair off
And then Jack Frost comes a knocking
Knockin the door down
Knockin the bear’s teeth out
He's droppin your boy like he drops beats in the streets
Droppin him like a footprint in sopping cement
He doesn’t stop hitting
Cause life doesn’t pull punches
Life's a relentless melee of mashing
Of bashing and beating
Gnawing and tearing and wearing down
And soon your baby Is nothing but bare bones in a bloody gutter
Dying the snow with ruby regret
So next time you think about boozing and snoozing
Maybe think about your baby bear
Your bare little baby
Will his future be bright
Or bare?
Dan Sniff is a sophomore Music Education major with a Choral emphasis at UW-Platteville. He is originally from Browntown, WI. Dan is involved in music on the UW-Platteville campus, including being a member of the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He also participates in theatre at UW-Platteville as an actor.
Maddie Hansen is extremely passionate about drawing, writing, and storytelling. She hopes to publish her own collection of poetry someday, with a drawing for each one. Check her out on Instagram: instagram.com/illiardbilliard