Oh, if you ping one more time I’ll bap your lights out.

You pinball machine, or should I say pingball machine?

Ping!

I wish I could fly, but every morning I wake from my dreams I’m in my same old bed.

Of course, it will be crowded and if I ask for directions, people will say, “No. Too bad, Yah yah. Not my Problem. Go to the Help Desk. Nah, forget it.” (People aren’t very nice sometimes.)

And it will be noisy with all the cars going beep, honk, zip, screeech, vroom, b-b-b-b-b, proom, and all the people going, “No! Go! Leave me! Stay away! I won’t help. Stop!” All of that is too much for a 4th Grader.

Going downtown in Manhattan probably wouldn’t be so bad, but the temptation’s killing me.

water,
cold, warm,
rising, cooling down, warming up,
goes in goes out–
moving around, going in, going out,
sometimes quiet,
ocean

Brownie

What is brown and white all over?
It’s funny when he stares at me from the door.
Brownie Boy…how he likes to run in clovers.
He likes to tap dance on the floor…sometimes he dances to the door!

When ever we leave he cry’s like a baby.
He has the cutest smile.
Sometimes he funny, but i think he’s crazy.
He run’s so fast he run’s a mile.

He’s sooooo soft.
He is very fuzzy.
I think he would sleep in a loft.
He like’s to cuddle.

He is lot’s of fun.
He like’s to run.

One night I was walking home alone. Suddenlty I heard footsteps behind me. I turned and…Ouch!! i tripped and fell.
The footsteps came closer and closer. I could see my breath. I felt dread. Then fingernails as heavy as lead and a cape as black as death touched my shoulder. All it said was, “I come from the dead.”

I felt sweat running down my head. “You; you come from…”
“Sure, you don’t believe me do you? I can tell by your face; I’m deaf.”
“Oh.”
“Say, I am good!”
“What do you mean?”
“I meant I’m your brother!”
“Joey, you are good!”
“Thanks. Happy Halloween!”
And my brother and I tread home.

Thank you to John Brofy, our former neighbor, for answering the mystery question.
This is of the brown algae of the kelp family. What you see on the beach is one of the blades which has broken off of the main plant–the plants grow from attachments on the sea floor and can be up to about 30 feet long. The little bulbs at the bottom of the blades are gas-filled so that the plants float upright in tne water. This species–Macrocystis integrifolia–ranges from British Columbia on the north to well down into California. Sea otters and grey whales and lots of other
critters love to hang around in kelp beds.

Palm tree in the sun.
It droops when the day is done.
In the morning; fun!

And

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