Rolling Through

I could only hear every other word

An empty bus isn’t a quiet place

Even if you aren’t sitting up above the wheel

If you are and

You are sharing the bus with twenty or so five and six year olds

Many of whom are shooting at you with their fingers

Well even if your hearing has always been good

You’d need the little boy sitting next to your daughter

To repeat his question

On the third go round

I went with Fred for my answer

I was throwing up my arms in surrender and

Being kicked in the small of the back

So when I heard the word name

That third time

I thought Fred would be a safe answer and

It did make him laugh

Albeit because he was expecting Ford or Buick but

My daughter gave him the right answer and

Sometimes a complete picture needs more than

Words

Every other or

Even all of them