Monday, April 19, 2021

picking berries with dorothy

let's go pick strawberries
my lovely
bride says to me
one bright morning.
she's pulling the curtains
back and
has a little straw basket
in her hand.
come on, up and at em.
there's a farm about
seventy five miles
from here, where we can
pick our own berries.
blue berries too.
i look at the basket and
the dress she has on.
she looks like dorothy
in the wizard of oz.
her hair is in pig tails.
where did you get that 
costume, i ask her, rubbing
my eyes from the sunlight.
it's not a costume, i got
this at the Nordstrom Rack.
oh.
so, get up, let's go
pick some strawberries.
it'll be fun.
doesn't safeway have strawberries?
i ask her.
i saw some in
little boxes the other day
in the produce section.
blueberries too.

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