Re-coding the responses to simple queries, I wot.
So during this event, what did you think your Mother meant? ..and like that.
(Or has The Pub replaced the couch?)

Or as PIet Hein puts it (yes, another Grook w/sketch)

A REPROOF
Grook in answer to a long explanatory letter

In view of your manner
of spending your days
I hope you may learn
before ending them,
that the effort you spend on defending your ways
could better be spent
on amending them.