04-26-2021, 07:08 AM
Upset
I just stood there and cried
water up to my waist
tangled up in
my yellow oilcloth raincoat
as my red plastic boat
floated by still attached
to its kite string
near the big rock
I’d fallen over
walking backwards towing
my red plastic boat along by
a kite-winder with a crank
along the side of the pond
with those little spring-steel clasps
I’d fastened on my yellow raincoat
because it was raining
that day in Eden Park
I was eight years old.
I just stood there and cried
water up to my waist
tangled up in
my yellow oilcloth raincoat
as my red plastic boat
floated by still attached
to its kite string
near the big rock
I’d fallen over
walking backwards towing
my red plastic boat along by
a kite-winder with a crank
along the side of the pond
with those little spring-steel clasps
I’d fastened on my yellow raincoat
because it was raining
that day in Eden Park
I was eight years old.
Non-practicing atheist