Sunday, 29 June 2008

Things to Do (I've Tried)

Number One: Try to (walking quickly) be.
Number Two: Count to ten, smile, count to ten.
Number Three: Big shoes.
Number Four: Washing big shoes.
Number Five: Buying things and spending money.
Number Six: Counting things.
Number Seven: Inventing facial expressions.
Number Eight: Parking.
Number Nine: Fixing things.
Number Ten: Writing letters.
Number Eleven: Studying maps, inventing street names.
Number Twelve: Scraping the garden.
Number Thirteen: Putting the garden in the house.
Number Fourteen: Pointy things.
Number 15: Bumpy things.
Number Sixteen: Broken things.
Number Seventeen: Finding the bank.
Number Eighteen: Finding the window.
Number Nineteen: Writing a book.
Number Twenty: Finding the book.
Number Twenty-one: Little houses.
Number Twenty-two: Counting the houses.
Number Twenty-three: Drinking things.
Number Twenty-four: Watching other things.
Number Twenty-five: Putting houses next to bumpy things.
Number Twenty-six: Shaking things next to other things.
-D. Byrne, "The Knee Plays"

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