Lawrence
Hall
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Children on an October Evening
We
lay in the grass and counted the stars:
There
must be a hundred of them
A
million
A
billion
A
gazillion!
Nuh-uh,
there’s no such number as a gazillion
Yeah-huh,
I betcha there is – but I can’t count that high
You
don’t have to
Maybe
the stars can count themselves
Are
there spacemen out there beyond the moon?
Are
maybe over there beyond the trees
It’s
okay; I’ve got my Roy Rogers cap pistol
Dale
Evans can shoot as good as Roy!
Can
not
Can
too
Can’t
Can
My
daddy says we’re getting a tv
We
can watch the stars on tv
I
betcha this is better
You’re
just mad ‘cause you don’t have a tv
Do
you see the man in the moon?
I
think it’s a girl
A
girl in the moon! Don’t be silly!
Well,
what do you see, then?
The
moon is so big and round
But
sometimes it isn’t
But
it is right now. It likes us
And
there’s Peter Pan’s second star to the right
I
don’t want to grow up
We
have to
Why?
I
don’t know. It’s a rule
Will
there be pirates and Peter Pan?
And
pancakes on Saturday morning?
I
don’t think so
That’s
not fair
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