Give me green chalk to paint my fingertips & hopscotch on my sidewalk
Give me saturday morning cartoons and imagination surging through my veins
Give me cassette tapes & the lunchables Mama won’t buy me unless I have a field trip tomorrow
Give me gel pens that never have enough ink for a whole sentence
& Rugrats that never have enough reruns before Nick @ Nite
& I’ll be home before the street lights
Come on
Give me bubble gum & Lisa Frank & a sticky thermos in my lunchbox,
A bruise on my PB&J
And more hunger for recess than for a sandwich.
Kush Thompson is a 2010 GirlSpeak editor.
