Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Hanabata Days

It's funny wen you tink back at all da stuffs you wen do small-kid time. tink about where you when live, what you wen eat, and what you did for fun:

Hanabata Days was full of bare feet and bee stings,
Had Ice cake and school lunch
Snack time I always had fruit roll-up or graham crackers
But all da odda guys had nori and hi-chew

Hanabata Days was May Day and Buta Hunt wit Frank Delima
was chasemaster and no masterbacks
had rainy days, which meant board games on the lanai at school
Connect Four was da bestess

Had Mr. Tanji da skool cook
and Ms. Lima da skool nurse
Had Reading Rainbow and da Book Fair
and Family Fun Nite

Hanabata Days we used to make kukui nut sailboats
and race 'em in the gutter wen had choke rain
Catch Crawfish in the auwai
and make 'em fight

Hanabata Days was Pick- Up- Sticks and Linkin Logs
was nap time, pledge of allegiance, and da bugel horn at 8am
was late for school and wait for mom to pick us up
was soccer in the front yard

Hanabata Days was care free, no worries
always had nuff
even if neva have choke
Where did dose days go?

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