Small world
So Jimmy, his mama want sugar to bake
him a pancake, so she send him to the store with a dollar for a sack
of sugar. But soon he come running back. He got no sugar.
"Mama," he say, "ain't
no store. The street, she just end past Auntie Louise trailer."
"Jimmy, go ask Auntie if she have
sugar," his Mama say.
Soon Jimmy come running back, with a
cupful of molasses. "Auntie out of sugar," he say, "she
send molasses."
So Mama stir up the molasses, flour,
and she see she have no egg.
"Run Jimmy, fetch me an egg from
the chicken house, so I can make you a pancake."
Jimmy, he run out the back door, but he
come right back. "Chicken house gone," he say, "but
they was one egg in the grass," and he give it to her.
Mama crack the egg into the bowl and
she stir up the batter. She pour the batter in the skillet. This
will be one fine pancake! But when she flip the pancake, it land on
the floor and roll out the door.
"Jimmy," Mama shouts, "fetch
me that pancake!" He run out the door and down the road.
The pancake roll past the mimosa tree
and its pink fans hanging down, past Auntie Louise trailer and her
lilies, over the plank bridge, and Jimmy run after. When he get to
the other side of the bridge the store be gone, but the pancake keep
rolling and Jimmy keep running. He running by the cow pasture (the
cow, she chewing her cud), and he see his house just there beside the
road in front of him, chicken on roof. The pancake keep rolling past
house and mimosa tree, and Jimmy, he run faster, for to catch it.
Bridge, cow (still chewing), house (Mama in the doorway), tree, cow,
house (Mama shouting), tree. Pancake keep rolling and Jimmy keep
running. The road, she keep ashrinkin', and pretty soon it be just
Jimmy and the pancake, the road rolling up behind his heels and he
catch the pancake just before everything be gone. Jimmy take a big
bite. It the best pancake he ever have.
Publ. Daily Cabal 2008
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