.
many times over
burying your head in sand
splashing grains around
brown thrasher troubles
why are you bathing in sand
is this new fashion
back scratching technique
your way to play volleyball
volley sand for one
“Brody take a bite
of your hot dog you won’t
have any energy”
“you’ll have to go upstairs
and take a nap you won’t
be able to play”
what a cute way
telling your child to eat dinner
thinking on his feet
i ate everything
no one had to ask me twice
except that one time
sardine sandwiches
thinking it was tuna fish
at my father’s store
my mother brought lunch
glad i’m vegetarian
give seagull sardines
Brody hates hot dogs
jamie livingston ate four
my birthday cook out
father and husband
could eat them every single day
if you let them
they would rather go
to a restaurant with hot dogs
than anywhere else
.
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clever & well written~
thank-you cindy
I remember thinking a a kid that I ought to like sardines since there were so many kinds of fish I did like, but no, it wasn’t happening. Anchovies neither. I confess I’m a little curious what I’d think today but I feel like I shouldn’t put the fish to the bother given the limited chances of a happy outcome for me.
i think i do like most other fish, but i’ve never had an anchovy. i don’t think it would be a happy outcome, for either of us, especially when you think it’s a tuna fish sandwich.
Who is Jamie Livingston again?
my next door neighbor, presbyterian reverend’s son.they lived next door , kindergarten until we were about 21.
Oh I thought he was famous or something and I just missed it. So did you have a crush on him or something?
lol..no amy on my R liked jamie on my L.. i lived in the middle..jamie feb 15..amy 3/16 ..me 4/17…amy had crush on presbyterian minister’s son… she went to his church…mine was the baptist minister’s son.
Love the sense of time and place in this poem