Little Me in My Big Badass World

I traveled the open sea

on a wooden pirate ship

and made Santa walk the plank.

I climbed the highest mountains

and all the tallest buildings

to toss money from all the banks.

I danced on a white beach,

where I skipped a crab across the tide—

and I did all those things when I was still just a child.

I paraded through gardens

with the flowers in my mouth,

then ran from all those angry bees

about a hundred miles south.

I slid down rainbows

and landed in pots of gold!

Which got the leprechaun fired,

or so I was told.

I put out forest fires

to save critters from igniting,

and held a meeting with the earth’s leaders

to stop all the fighting:

I explored the whole world

and even flew through space—

because in my big badass world

I did it all!


From the book Kairos (print version only)