Darndest

12 year old cousin Susan
  was asked
at a family reunion
(as the men talked about cars,
and the women about clothes)

"Hey Susan Honey!
Do you think that people are
fundamentally good, or do you
think they're fundamentally evil?"

Everybody smiles.
Susan seems a bit puzzled.

"What's fundamental?" she asks.
-and then-

Everybody laughs, marquee lights are
flashing as Bill Cosby hops out of a bush
and starts dancing and incantating like-

-"Skippetybeebopereckonahootenanny
baddababangdabang!!!"

Everybody coos, "What a little star!"

For some,
it's hard to be a part of the laugh
  having been on the spot before
It's what I continue to smile about,
  as I turn away,
letting the child say
whatever she pleases herself with,
(and others with)

The darndest thing
  is that this question is something
  she's gonna hafta answer
                                        all
                                          by
                                            herself