Thursday, July 06, 2017
The Animating Games
What’s your name?
Puddin-Tane.
Where do you live?
Down the lane.
What’s your number?
Cucumber!
Rhymes increasingly surreal
hold off terror a time.
So, a breathless result!
But in KICK THE CAN
one might
send it chattering infinitely
down an endless hill,
and really hide thus
from murdering adults.
Labels: adults, childhood, childhood rhymes and songs, childhood surrealism, childhood terror, children, children's games, kick the can
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Old Wives etc
Re Science of Yesteryear
Aunt Dorothea snapped “You could plant potatoes in those ears!
A boy went deef in this town!”
And Aunt Jill told him that if he kept insisting on making stupid
faces, his would freeze into the absolute worst one. Forever!
Uncle Reo could rival the aunts: “If you pull on it too much,
you’ll go crazy! Uh? How are you now, by the way?”
“Birdsong!” he answered. “Albany! Roto Rooter Roto Rooter
Roto Rooter!”
“You’re bullshitting, but they really got cases...”
So...growing up in a family wary and funny.
Labels: childhood, Family, Old Wives Tales
