Childhood 2019

Nursery Rhymes 

Mary Mary quite contrary 

how does your school day go?  

With “shooter” drills, 

and gun shot tales, 

and sitting ducks 

all in a row...

Alice, Alice lock the door, 

do you know what lays in store?

Shut the lights off, do not speak.

This is not the time to squeak. 

Crawl beneath your desk and hide. 

No crying now...

or we’ll be spied.

Eeny, meeny miney mo,

Who’s the next of us to go?

Ring around the rosie

pockets full posies

Bang, bang,

we all fall down.

Photo credit: Jim Carey, actor/artist/activist