{"id":488,"date":"2010-06-24T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:44:37","slug":"girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Pip as Strawberry Shortcake.<\/p>\n

I awoke at 3:45 am this morning to find my mind all ready busy writing poetry. And dang it, if it didn’t insist on making me haul my tired body out of bed to write it all down. And wouldn’t you know it, paper and pens are almost impossible to find in the dark. So here is what my mind wrote in the wee hours of this morning:<\/p>\n

Girl Child<\/b><\/h4>\n
Run
\nJump
\nHang
\nSlide
\nFall<\/h5>\n
No time for food
\nNo time for drink
\nNo time to pee<\/h5>\n
Monsters to draw
\nPoisonous mushrooms to pick
\nMarching ants to bury
\nDolls to swaddle, fold, stuff into small prams
\nUnderwear to toss<\/h5>\n
Blackened face
\nGreen knees
\nPurple tongue
\nBare Bottom
\nHair a nest of twigs, leaves, tangles<\/h5>\n
Run
\nJump
\nHang
\nSlide
\nFall into bed<\/h5>\n
Run
\nJump
\nHang
\nSlide
\nFall
\nCry
\nWake<\/h5>\n
No brush
\nTeeth like<\/i> sugar-bugs
\nHair wants<\/i> nest<\/h5>\n
Hungry
\nEat
\nChew
\nMore choci-milk
\nAbandon plate<\/h5>\n
Run
\nJump
\nHang
\nSlide
\nFall<\/h5>\n
Melissa Mix Hart 2010<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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