Things He Can Do Which I Can't

  

Things He Can Do Which I Can't

He can make a knife
    out of cardboard and a clothespin.
With wood scraps
    he can build a death-ray gun.
A banana
    is a telephone.
The floor is burning hot lava.
    The furniture, islands.
He can swim
    in a bathtub.
With one paper and three pens
    he can fight a whole war.
He can sleep
    when there is no money.
He can cuddle in a lap
    to make everything right
and, you know?
    I think it is.

.....

From my book Son of a Poet

Later published in Poetry Breakfast. Thank you Kay Kestner, editor.
 

Photo of myself and my son taken in 1982, which is also when this poem was written.