Do you?

To a child, the world is full of mysteries...

Sometimes

when they are walking

people’s bottoms

make a smile

and sometimes

they make a cross

with a little dark diamond

at the middle.

Do you ever wonder what it’s like in there?

In bed at night

if I picked my nose

and didn’t know what to do with it

I would stick it to the wall by my bed

then a few days later

when it was dry

I would

pick it off again.

Our bedroom wallpaper

had animals

all over it

and next to my bed all the animals

had little white patches

where the paper had come off

with the pickings.

And when you’re walking

by the road

and there’s traffic

queued up at

traffic lights

do you look and see

the drivers

picking their noses

or do you see

the way seatbelts go 

in between

ladies’ bosoms?