For Being A Little Bad

My father used to say,

"You are incorrigible."

He wasn't angry,

in fact he was a little glad.

In Chinese dictionary,

Incorrigible consists of two characters:

Ren, Allowing,

Xing, Nature.

In English dictionary,

Incorrigible is an adjective,

That cannot be corrected or reformed,

especially because set in bad habits!

Laurie Anderson sang,

"When my father died, a whole library burned down to the ground."

Wondering Lotus sang,

"When my father died, a whole dictionary turned up becoming mine."

William Shakespeare said:

"Best men are moulded out of faults;

And, for the most, becomes much more the better

for being a little bad."

Be incorrigible I say,

Like the lotus grow and thrive in mud!