8

I prepare to leave through the door, then hesitate for I want to tell grandma that I am going out. She is in the washroom, so I yell inside, "I'm going out!"


Where!

-Outer space!

What! You can't go to outer space, you haven't had any training, you don't have the proper equipment.

-Of course I'm ready. All I need is my rocket ship. Besides, I can fly.

Hmmf! Fly! Ya right, you're gonna crash into the ground into a big poopbiscuit.


Laughing at us, I wander into the kitchen to get a glass of water. But I turn on my heels and yell back, "Aren't you making poop-biscuits now?"

Actually, according to Chen tradition, it is "poop-cakes." So I asked her if it was poop cakes or biscuits she was making.


Hmmf! I, for one, am done. But you, si beng (poop biscuit).

7

holding the ball with the tip of the stick
the car light is white
car car!

6

they were kicking down the pylons with their legs, and throwing them over fences. In grade three he had asked me in the van, very tenderly, if I could be on his team. when we got to the Laser Dome, I had teamed up with everyone else to blitz him.

5

my waitress is joking with everyone.

4

in the tumbling vacuum between Vendome and Villa, grandmother calls the Russian woman a big white pig

3

it has been raining for four days
the sun is out now

2

a freckled girl
in a yellow raincoat asks for the time
she leans to my side