TheBanyanTree: we all scream

[Pam Lawley]

aw Mikey - you've done it again!!  nice job!!!!  :)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apropos of the year's first ice cream truck....
>
>
> coming around the curve of the earth
> the white truck blaring für elise
> and a hundred heads between pricked ears
> bolt upright, shouting to their mothers
> for a nickel, please!  quick!  mom!  please!
> the ice cream man cometh at a slow sure roll
> matching the pace of a panicked child,
> bearing blessings, cold dairy comfort
> for our street only, please! mom! please!
> don’t let it be
> all the kids but me.
>
> by the next block the truck plays greensleaves,
> and left in its wake are curbside urchins
> down to chewing flat sticks to splinters
> while balled up wrappers roll down gutters.
> dribbled melt on chins as child minds reckon
> the circumnavigation of their world,
> the next anxious nickel moment,
> the orbit of that cold musical comet
> around a sun the color of a popsicle tongue.
>