Enjoy the Show

I'm begging like a lack-luster MC
To somehow just keep the hilarity in tact
When she tiptoes a three and a half sleepy midnight question
Into our lamp yellow book quiet bedroom: "Can I sch-weep wish you guys?"

It's good enough for standup if I could deliver it right.

Or his twenty-two month midday fit of leg-slapping fury
Furrowed eyebrows and scowling madness.

Better than Belushi.

A miniature wolf boy howl, revealing
Chewed up asparagus green crayon
Waxy bits shooting out with every decibel scream over -
Who knows what.

Gotta love our couch potato rhetorical persistence: "Why are you crying?"
Yes, you're right. I'd cry louder too.
It's a terrible question.

No applause, please.

Almost as awful as overstretched leopard cotton pants
Tripping now, oops - "Are you...?"

Long dramatic pause. Great stage effect.
Okay, she's up and twirling again.
Hair's an absolute Fraggle Rock disaster.

A multi-color polka-dotted hoodie and her--
Wait,

When did she change her pants?

Additional note to self - he's got no pants.
Just a flappy diaper
Those chubby bare stout legs
And that -
Wooden kitchen spoon?

Forgot I was looking for that.

Lost in mismanaged utensil abyss for six months
Somehow
Reappearing in this magic show instant
A musical drum tool tapping a greasy beat
Against a fingerprint window, and him -
Singing, sort of,
An unintelligible rock-beat tune.

Impressive range, I might add.
Operatically high and cowboyishly low
For a boy his age.

Don't chip that Andersen window -
That's $357 + labor, buddy.

Taking...wooden...spoon...Monster grip.

Three, two, one. I win.

Blood-letting scream.

Yup, empty handed crying slapping little legs red.
But I've got back my wooden spoon.

Hmm, a dog bite mark. Suspect.

Wish I could do
These ordinary days justice
Our family run in-house shows
Extraordinarily full of the best unrehearsed jokes
I've ever heard
Deep ad-lib belly laughs,
My walking toy tornado props -
Restricted vocabulary skits and unrestricted
Ingenuity.

Yes, I love them both, my sidekick show.
Unstoppable comic release,
Without end,
Or even,
Relief.