A Child's Follies

Porky Pig plastic bank, streaked with tears Offered at my parent's bedside as they quarrel over money scarce like the scent of angels Bickering exhaustion that steals the dark's stillness. ______________________________ 7am Saturday morning cartoons incentive to rise and spy Bugs Bunny a trickster, brash, cocky pulling me into rabbit hole hijinks Elmer Fudd befuddled - Daffy Duck diddler Road Runner renegade, as Wile E. Coyote flattened explosive pursuits surreal mirth Jarring clang of animation - smack down liberated from the blare of discontent Saturday morning cartoons, Looney capers, sketching my childhood fantasy in flannel pajamas comfort For a TV box, within my reach, magical getaway vortex of forgetting Cartoons of hilarity washing my sealed world in whimsy unfastening laces of grit thriving like the history carried within us robbed, from a child's bank of remembering. Poem revised: January 27, 2021