“Are bathing suits ‘soapable’?”
Asked after swimming
while washing her hair.
“Do ducks eat rice?”
She asked as Dad pulled rice
stuffing from the roast
Duck’s you-know-where.
“Does that dog like me?”
She smiled as it slurped her chin.
“Is Dad as old as Jesus?”
Impossible to call that sin.
“Why does the train take so long to stop?”
A physics question, indeed.
“And who said grown ups know better?
—It certainly wasn’t
Woody, Buzz, Jessie or Little Bo-peep.
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