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What Does Pulverize Mean

What does pulverize mean? The five-year-old asks me.
His face is a frown.
“No idea,” I lie. 
Having already put up with sobbing wailing 
over the Easter Bunny’s beheading
which was explained by his 11-year-old brother.
Brother who giggles and runs off.
No telling how he has used pulverize.

funfunnygrandchildgrandmothergrandsonfree verse

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Jeff Connelly

December 14, 2019 at 4:46 AM

Certainly a poem that keeps me hanging... wondering... Kids are so cool Caren as is this poem. I remember when my son first got here from Tokyo and was learning english, he made the statement to a friend, "I have an abundance of language." Lol Then proceeded to, say but not use in a sentence, words lije floride; arrange, and so forth. He was very proud. BUT it seems, in this poem, that these children had physically used the word pulverized. A wonderful cliff hanger for sure Caren. Thanks.

Caren Krutsinger

December 14, 2019 at 5:28 AM

Thank you so much Jeff. I get all of my BEST ideas from children. They are so helpful in that department.