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Who wants to be

Kelley Jean White MD

I was going away to college;
I was setting up the room;
I had acquired this boyfriend,
someone I don’t know,
pale and smooth and thin and sick;
I was trying to get the bed made up
so I could tuck him in;
I had these three half grown kittens,
beautiful and smooth,
they were bright crayon colors,
red and blue and yellow;
they kept squirming all over,
getting away, I tried to put them
on a shelf but they kept getting out;
I gathered them up
spilling over my arms that cool fur;
I pulled out this drawer;
I shut them up--
        Mother--says the oldest--
        the sick boy friend is John
        and we are the kittens, duh--
- -No, there was more,
a great pink stuffed elephant,
I set it on the very top of the shelves,
a blue hippo,
I set it on the left top,
balanced carefully,
parts were hanging over the edges--
        --Da-uh, Mom, those are your parents,
        blue and pink, huh, get it--
- -No, I wouldn’t
be putting my parents up
on a shelf ; I wouldn’t shut
my children up. . .

Damn.
Who wants to be the yellow kitten?

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