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
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Post-Depression
Pols fond of “kicking
the can down the road.”
As a kid, sneaker on
the actual can. So alone,
thudding heart scans black-
ness for those who leap
out and kick that can--
once I’ve left it to ferret
them out. Scraping tinniness
bouncing away. Despair
at being “it” again. Playing
very late as parents drank,
kicked down the road.
Labels: depression, kick the can
