once upon a cloud
feeling rather proud
all accounts break even
children awful loud
you cracked the piggy open
eyes as wide as coins
the exclamation spoken
iowa! des moines
a hundred silver dollars
in bed with porcelain
you lifted up your collar
to hide the widest grin
each child given two
and told not what to do
one was twice as nice
another not a clue
what remained then was invested
in reclamation of
the sky
to turn her
back from black
to blue
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