Open the curtains

And wake the tired wee girl.

She thinks I'm a jerk.

 

Here is your breakfast

The same thing you always have.

Please get off the floor.

 

Play lunchbox tetris

Realize I think cheese flavor

Really is protein.

 

Okay, time to dress.

Yes, you have to wear panties.

Please get off the floor.

 

Sock is inside out.

Change it or leave it that way.

It will not be sad.

 

Sock. Seriously.

Put it on or turn it out.

The sock does not care.

 

Please get off the floor.

I am now so very old.

Put on the sock. Now.

 

All dressed! So well done!

Now let's comb your pretty hair.

Yes. Again. Today.

 

Shoes on! Grab backpack!

To the van and buckle up!

Where is your backpack?

 

Cars go left and right

A ballet, keeping me stuck

Here in my driveway.

 

Race into the lot

We scramble out of the van

She points out her friends

 

She gets in her line.

They walk away, she looks back

And then she is gone.