A spoken-word poem about growing up that imagines a future self eating sweets daily and watching cartoons, while also demanding the strength to fight monsters and carry heavy burdens. The speaker rejects the idea that life's unfairness is predetermined, insisting instead on taking control of the story.
The questions that you need to know, the answers to before you go to bed. When I grow up, I will eat sweets every day on the way to work, and I will go to bed later at night. And I will wake up when the sun comes up, and I will watch cartoons until my eyes go square, and I won't When I grow up, when I grow up, when I grow up, I will be strong enough to carry all the heavy things you have to pull about with you when you're a grown-up. That's it! And when I grow up, when I grow up, when I grow up, I will be brave enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed each night to be unaware enough. And when I grow up, I will have treats every day and I'll play with things that all pretend that monsters think are fun. And I will wake up When the sun comes up and I feel so new, they just fly into the sun, and I won't let them stop me over at all when I grow up. When I grow up, I'll be brave enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed. Each night you fear so much. And when I grow up, just because you find that life's not fair, it doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it. If you always take it off the chain and wear it, nothing will change. When I grow up, just because I find myself in this story, it doesn't mean that everything is written for me. If I think the ending is fixed already, I might as well be saying, I think that it's okay. And that's not right!
