Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Zen and the Art of Being a Child


with apologies to Jessica and Reuben

In a room full of
toys: sit on a cake tin; play
with a travel mug.




















My niece, Jessica, posted this picture on Facebook, with the accompanying text: 'In a room full of toys, sit on a cake tin and play with a travel mug'. That belongs in a poem, I thought, before realising that, by removing 'and', it already was (a haiku). 'What is childhood?' you might ask. 'In a room full of toys: sit on a cake tin; play with a travel mug'. That. That is childhood.

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