The Girls by Lori Lansens

Author:Lori Lansens [Lansens, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780759515888
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Published: 2006-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

It’s Not Snot

A little boy named Bobby Gadd

Was sent to bed for being bad.

His mother saw him once, then twice

Do a thing that isn’t nice.

He stuffed his finger in his nose,

Found something that was not a rose

Then put it in his mouth he did!

His mother simply flipped her lid.

You just picked your nose! she said.

Bobby grinned and shook his head.

I saw you pick! I saw you chew!

I think just now you swallowed too!

Bobby! Son! Your gut will rot!

Don’t worry, Mom. It’s not snot.

Mother knew her boy had lied.

To your room right now! she cried.

The moral of the story is—Don’t eat snot.

For the video, Rose read the poem while I flipped my drawings, which had dialogue bubbles for all the talking parts. We did it three times because Rose stumbled over some of the words, even though she knows them by heart. At the very end of the tape we say good-bye, but in a see-you-tomorrow kind of way instead of a forever kind of way. I asked Rose if she wanted to make a tape for anyone else, but she doesn’t.

She is happy that Nick Todino is driving us to see Dr. Singh in Toronto tomorrow. I’d sooner go by bus, but Rose is worried about making bathroom stops and whatever. Last week my sister lost her balance (which is happening more and more and is obviously causing us concern) when we went to see Nonna, who doesn’t usually recognize us now and doesn’t always seem to understand that we are two girls. Anyway, Nick caught Rose and me and helped us to the couch. Even though he complained about how heavy we were, I guess it was still nice of him not to just let us fall. There are some people who would have panicked and been afraid to touch us. That’s just how it is. Still, I’m not big on Nick. I think it’s partially because his son Ryan tried to drown us when we were kids. That’s a hard thing to forgive.

Our birthday is five weeks away. Today, which is June, was one of those strange days when the sun shines on one side of the street and it rains on the other. First there was no wind at all, then suddenly the sheers were blowing in the living room and a million green spinners were falling from the maple tree out back, and Rose and I had to hurry outside to get the garbage-can lid before it blew over to Todinos’ and put it back on tight so the squirrels don’t get into it later. If the squirrels do get at the garbage, then we have to ask Nick to come and clean it up for us, which is embarrassing, plus, I hate it when we have to ask Nick for favors. He’s been living with Nonna for about five years. Uncle Stash and Aunt Lovey died before they ever met him, which still seems weird to me because it seems like Nick’s been around forever. He has a second family in Windsor that he’s court-ordered to stay away from.

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