Let’s Be Little Jocelyn

Let’s be little for one more day,
It’s no fun alone—be little with me again.
Let’s skip our chores and eat cheerios
out of the box—stay home, we can run
around the house. Let’s play hooky
and blast Aerosmith—like we never heard it before.
I’ll be the big race car driver, like I was before
and you—be a mommy with groceries again
and we'll play cars with no rules
and we’ll crash, over and over
and over and over
like it replays in my mind
except nobody gets hurt
like when we were little
and nobody ever says
“it’s over”
she’s gone,
goodbye.