Poems of the Week

An Ineggscusable Act

by Thomas Germana

“Last summer, [a 24-year-old mom in Helsingborg, Sweden] told her young daughter
they’d be baking an apple cake together for a wholesome little TikTok video.
Instead of flour and sugar, the girl got an unexpected ingredient: an egg,
cracked straight onto her forehead by her own mother, yolk dripping down her face,
all for the amusement of the internet. … She was convicted of harassment and ordered
to pay SEK 20,000 (roughly $2,070) in damages to her own daughter.”
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Eggity crackity,
Mother in Helsingborg
Messed with her kid and was
Put in her place,

Paying the price for her
Eg(g)ocentricity.
Now who’s the one with the
Egg on her face?