KIDS SONGS
Driving in the car with a seven year old
listening to “What’s Going On”
the lyrics puzzle him
so I explain the idea -
We have to find a way to be nicer to each other,
rather than fighting, and killing people.
“This singer is good.”
He asks his name.
“Marvin Gaye” I tell him.
“How old is he?”
“He’s not alive anymore.”
“How did he die?”
I take a moment to think over the details of Marvin Gaye’s untimely passing.
“He was shot.” I say.
His seven year old brain
takes this in even stride and replies
“That’s sad…
The person who shot him must not have listened to his song.”
GROWN It‘s a dismal day
that day
when your parents decide
because of books they’ve read
and teacher’s they’ve talked to
that you are too old
to keep taking baths with your friends.
No more bubbles
splashing
playing pretend submarines.
Only washing yourself clean and thorough.
It’s a hopeful day
the day that follows
as you set out looking
to make new friends
the kind who will not care
what their parents think
and many years later
will wander with you
arm in arm
in search of larger bathtubs
and neverending bubbles.
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QUESTIONNAIRE Have you already taken
the greatest photograph that you will ever take?
What does it look like?
Where do you keep it?
How do you know?
As an adult
have you run
top speed
naked through a field?
More than once?
Have you been inside every
room in your house today?
How about every closet?
How long since you’ve been in every closet?
Too long I bet.
There’s plenty to be learned in those closets.
Fields.
Wasted snapshots.
And you paid for them.
Get in there.
Root around.
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