The big top

I remember the winter

the circus came to town.

***

A few kids skipped

school to see the show.

***

“Whoah!” We said, when

we saw the empty desks.

“Luckeeee.”

***

But the next day, their

desks were still empty.

***

Then our teacher came in

and said several of the

children absent from class

had been rushed to the

hospital for poisoning,

but they were fine.

***

Furthermore, she explained,

there was no circus in town.

It was just a home that was being

fumigated for insects.

***

“Whoah!” We all said,

A home being fumigated for insects!?

“Luckeee.”

Arriving late, helena blavatsky gets stuck with the piano stool

If I could have

any ten figures

from history

over for dinner.

I would have:

No. 1

My famous potato salad.

No. 2

My grandmother’s famous lemonade

No. 3

Famous Mickey Rooney, reduced.

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**  Don’t forget to leave out a letter of apology to Zander, Klaus!  **