Friday, December 18, 2009

The game of one cat one kitten

We're going to play
the game of one cat one kitten
(says Ruby).

You'll need to be
a lot of characters,
because Gloria won't understand.

You'll have to be my Mum.
I'll say, can I learn how to cook?
And you'll teach me.

And I'll run away
because the Mum's food is yukky
-- we won't say gross.

You pretend to lie on the road
and be a kitten.
I find you and make you my pet.

The more time you spend writing this down,
the less time we have
to play the game.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Healthy Things

I should never be sick
'cause we have Healthy Things
(says Ruby).

They're little tiny small things
and they're a lion. Here, I'll draw one for you.
There are arrows pointing to their tummy,
with skin dots, pale, very hard to see.

You should always have one a day
so you don't get sick.
Well, I've got the hiccups inside my tummy
so I should have had more.

They taste like -- how can I describe it?
Say you were cooking a Healthy Thing
and you just needed two ingredients:
an orange and some salt.

You squeeze out the juice and mix it up,
pour it into a salt bowl
and it turns into a a Healthy Thing.
Hm, how can I describe it?

It tastes like lemon with sour salt.
They're called Healthy Things
because they're Healthy
and because they're Things.