GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

Mama yelled at them for mopping the floor with blankets as shields from the grout lasers.

She’s into Obby’s.
(Obstacle courses on Roblox).

Plays with her friends, chatting on facetime.
(Her brother watches over her shoulder.)

But only one hour on the iPad.
(What else to do?)

Staged a piano recital for the stuffies.
(They quickly got bored of mashing keys.)

He pulled out their fort building kit.
(From my sister, last Christmas.)

He started with a strange shape,
(Not the usual cube with a gabled roof.)

She saw immediately — a laser room!
(She added checkpoints, throwing scarves onto the floor.)

The lines in the tile are lasers too!
(Protect yourself with baby blanket shields!)

He nests a plastic carrot in a toilet paper tube.
“The Golden Carrot!”

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Don’t be a prince,
不事王侯,
Bù shì wánghóu,

be noble.
高尚其事。
gāoshàng qí shì.