Puzzle Pieces

I was purposefully carved
With some sharp
And some rounded edges
To fit together
And form a pretty picture.

But I'm dysfunctional.

I'm missing a piece.
So the picture can not be whole.
But you still put me together,
And take me apart,
And put me back in the box.

Why don't you go
And buy a new puzzle?
One with clean-cut edges
And all of it's pieces?

I don't buy puzzles,
Because they only show one stupid,
Unrealistic thing:
A pretty picture.
You never see the whole world;
One side is always shadowed.
So you only see
The lighted side -
The beautiful, pretty picture.

Puzzles are the same!
They focus on the light.
"Do the edges first!
They're most important."
Your father lies through his tobacco teeth.