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(1) Aderyn
(2) Mommy
(3) PG-13
(4) 'Course.
(5)
Mommy and Daddy had a
fight today.

Mommy wanted Daddy to
come to the store with
me and Mommy and Sister,
but Daddy said no.
Mommy took Sister out
to the big silver van
and was going to leave when
Daddy pressed a glowing button
and the white ceiling panels
came creaking down.
I was crying, because
Mommy was going to
leave me behind.
Mommy came and hugged me
tight, then strapped me
into the big silver van,
saying, "He's not your daddy
anymore, understand?
Don't call him Daddy ever again."
I nodded, and Mommy
wiped away my tears.

Sister was there too,
just sitting and looking
at the blank gray wall.
At the store with the
huge red and white sign,
Mommy took me with her
and told Sister to stay.
Mommy put two jugs of
yummy white milk
in the cart, then
reached up to grab
a strange blue box.
On the front was a
picture of a great
wooden horse, and
underneath were two
black shadows, touching.
The shadows looked kind of
like Mommy and Daddy.
Mommy hid the box from
Sister, behind the milk jugs.
Back at home, as Sister
lugged in the milk and
dropped it on the floor,
Mommy took the box
upstairs, without saying
anything to Daddy.

But after a while,
Mommy and Daddy made up.

(1) Aderyn
(2) Sacrilege
(3) PG-13
(4) 'Course.
(5)
Can a secular event
nevertheless be sacrilege?
Once I saw a bumper
sticker, shaped like one of
those infamous pink
breast cancer ribbons.
This one was different.
Instead of pink,
the ribbon was white.
Instead of plain simplicity,
were evenly spaced
red maple leafs.
And along one end, was
a word in bold caps:
CANADA.
Red and white are
Canadian colors, just
like the American flag
minus blue.
I should know;
I stand tall as
a proud citizen of
Canada.