Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Increasing Your Odds for Survival in the Animal Kingdom

My three-year-old niece
Wants me to draw her favorite

Animal—a wolf—so I draw a wolf;
That’s nice, she says, and then asks me

To draw a boy and a girl,
So I draw a boy and a girl.

Looking at the pair and pursing her lips
In thought, she then asks me if I could please

Draw them holding swords, just in case
Her favorite is thinking

Nasty thoughts.

2 comments:

  1. Truly? Or is this imagined?

    Either way I am in love with your niece. What a wonderFUL mind.

    xo
    erin

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  2. True.......in a poetic sense: My wife related the story to me about a week ago--she was the one who was drawing for her niece, so this did happen. The "just in case/Her favorite is thinking//Nasty thoughts." is my imagining what was going through her mind. But you're certainly right in pointing out that she does have a wonderful mind!

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