To Brat Or Not To Brat

by Chris Dangerfield

To Brat, or not to Brat: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous Tops?
Or to take arms against suspicious minds,
And by opposing end them? To do lines? To be spanked?;
No more; and by not-spanked to say we end
the butt-ache and the thousand unnatural pains
that Tops do commit us to, 'tis a consummation
devoutly to be wished. Methinks? To Brat, to play;
To have fun: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that joy of the Brat, what dreams may come...


~ With apologies to THE brat, W.S.