Sunset Rachel Perkins Sunset, sunset!
Oh
dear beautiful sunset
You
are faithful in your path
Slowly, slowly!
But yet so quickly
Does your radiance fade Only to return The very next morning Sunrise, sunrise!
Oh wondrous
sunrise
How your beauty does shine morph
Tonight you will
Morph, morph! Glamorous morphing Changing you into
A fabulous
sunset
Sunset, sunset!
Oh
dear beautiful sunset
You
are faithful in your path
The Lump Allison 7
wanted a
ZoUman
Instead I got a brother,
doll.
I
think to myself as look
writhing, squirming, pink-puckered bundle in front of me.
him
-
see
how
he
real
is -
the edge of the crib. He's that this
little
thing
tells
me
She big ter!
sister, Alsie.
Isn't she. I
don't
is
but
Momma's
so.. .ugly.
watchful eye keeps
So small. So
helpless.
I
want
to
down poke
at the at
my hands resting on
And
I
suddenly reaUze
*****
going to change everything.
she's
pregnant
like
I
should be excited. "You're going to be a
You're going to be such a wonderful big
Isn't that exciting?
sis-
Daddy?"
know
it,
but
I
have almost been a big
sister three
times before.
Momma had had a baby in her belly, but didn't tell me. other times. Momma had lost those babies. When she tells me this time,
Three other times
Three
it's
the
moments, but quickly the needs of my dolls (they must be washed and fed and then put down to sleep) steals her glory. Isn't
real deal.
it
I
get excited for a few
obvious that I'm already a
Momma's He
mommy?
belly begins to swell
helps with the dishes, won't
let
and Daddy
starts treating
her extra- special.
her hft anything too heavy, takes time to play 4
