let's have a picnic

it's our first romantic

day time date.

we pack the picnic

basket

with sandwiches.

cut fruit.

cut vegetables.

potato chips.

she's made her mother's

potato

salad.

and i made brownies

a recipe off the box.

betty crocker's, i think.

we bring

wine, water, little cute

cups,

a table cloth.

napkins,

plastic plates and

forks.

bug repellant.

she brings a giant

umbrella

in case it rains.

which it does the second

we plant ourselves

on the ground.

a howling wind

suddenly roars through,

tossing everything around.

there's thunder

and lighting.

let's get a room, i tell her.

she laughs and says okay.

i grab a brownie

before we get up,

leaving everything behind

as we run away.