Small Things

 

Button, button,

who's got the button?

Hands in prayer-position,

the It party-guest passes from one person

to the next,

inserting flattened hands

between the similarly flattened,

very receptive,

pairs of little hands.

Guests sit in circled chairs

watching keen-eyed

to distinguish the

true deposition of the button

from the mock deposit.

 

Now who has the button?

Where has it been left?

Was the It sufficiently skilled

to fool all the watchers?

 

Only two people among all these party-goers

(poker-faced, if they're smart)

know

who has the button.

 

Small things are easily hidden.

Look! You can hide a button

in your prayer-folded hands,

then pass it along,

in secret,

to a friend.

 

Small things disappear

if you so much as blink.

 

 

 

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