Inventing Friends

My son is inventing friends

Who break things

That aren’t broken

Last week

There was the older boy who broke his toy train and

Yesterday

There was a little girl

Who broke the baseboard heater in his room

After she broke it

He took her home in the car

Maybe he feels bad

About the pile of broken things on my workbench and

Is confident that

Even daddy

Can fix broken things that aren’t really broken

Maybe he likes a happy ending

Maybe he just needs to get out more