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Next to the library is a boat pond just alright for toy ones.
On Saturdays it’s full of white sails with blue boats for blue
boys
This Saturday there was a green boat and a red girl
on
the bank with a stick which she flicked to make her boat
go
I was too big to talk to her so I just looked a
bit
She had welly boots so she could go when it got stuck
a lot
so blue boys laughed their belly belts and caps. She looked like a girl you might meet in a story you know, a story about bears
On Sunday the girl same boat same stick same stuck
but
She had brought her brown dog “Fritz, stop it, you are spoiling my game.”
She flicked her stick the dog would go in the water and splash about and make
Her green boat lie down flat and drift off course really dreggy
She would shout the dog bark stupid
till blue boys laughed their belly belts and caps. She looked like a girl you might meet in a story you know, a story about bears
Her green boat was soggy her wellies full of
pond
The red girl’s heart was broke her watery world a
whole
Mess of nothing gone right toady, spawn litter of a day till
I watched flick her stick.
I heard her shout
“Na jut; wenn ihrs durchaus haben wollt!”
I saw her brown dog stop I saw her brown dog swim
I saw her brown dog eat the blue boats with the white sails
I saw the red girl pick up her green boat and pop to the library
leaving her brown dog tied up at the door.
She looked like a girl you might meet in a story you know, a story about bears.
November 18, 2014