Twelve Down The Street
Do you wanna go kill some ants?
Daren boiled a kettle
and loaded it into his Super Soaker
mm...let’s go ride bikes instead
unwilling to point out
that he had asked the same question yesterday
We could use bleach he suggested
as I remembered that
his mother had taught him to pee sitting down
and restricted his bike use to
only his driveway
unless he was with his parents or a friend
and he was often teased by other kids, or
even me, when people
were around to mirror my embarrassment
at his alien innocence;
Hypercolor sitcom
fenced yard and dental care gollys and goshes
He poured the scalding liquid on their hill
and laughed.