Conversations with Marley

 After picking up Marley, my grandson, at the kindergarten we go to the public playground. He's a bit tired and not in his usual sparkling mood and can't really decide what he wants to do. We kick a little ball, he rides two different bicycles but not for very long. He settles for a swing meant for very small children. I have to move the swing. Which I gladly do.


“Where's my mummy?”

“She's at work”

“Why?”

“She has to earn money”

“Why?”

“So she can buy food for you and clothes and toys”

“Why?”

“So you won't be hungry or go naked”

If only he'd say: “I want to be naked”, but

“Why?”

“So you can grow up a happy child”

“Where's my daddy?”

“He's at work too. He's probably selling some people some gadgets”

“Why?”

“So he can buy food for you and your sister and pay the rent”

“Why?”

“He wants aaaaaaaaaaaaall the best for you”

“Why?”

I go to the other side of the swing. I need to rest my arm.


abandoned night
Who is really
hiding the moon?


We go home. He rides his kick-bike like he hasn't done anything else in his 2 years and 5 months long life. He wants to take the back stairs all the way up to the third floor. Maybe because he haven't done that before. Maybe because he doesn't want to go out the gate, round the house and up the stair he already knows. By the first landing his short legs are tired. The stairs are steeper and the steps higher than on the front stairs.


He wants me to carry him. On the way up he asks:


“Where's my mummy?”

“She's at work”

“Why?”

“She has to earn money”

“Why?”

“So she can buy food for you and clothes and toys”

“Why?”

“So you won't be hungry or go naked”

If only he'd say: “I want to be naked”, but

“Why?”

“So you can grow up a happy child”

“Where's my daddy?”

“He's at work too. He's probably selling some people some gadgets”

“Why?”

“So he can buy food for you and your sister and pay the rent”

“Why?”

“He wants aaaaaaaaaaaaall the best for you”

“Why?”


stroke of luck
of all the dewdrop worlds
you're in mine



…

file date: June 11, 2013

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