Poetry Friday: I Think I Said Too Much

An Original Poem for Poetry Friday:

 

Writing in My PJ’s

 

I think I said too much

When I told my kids

About my morning rituals

yesterday.

 

I told them I rise at 5:15 a.m.

So I can write

And read the nytimes.com and projo.com

Before I get start getting ready at six.

 

I think I said too much

When one of my kids

Asked me if I write

Every morning in my pajamas.

 

I am a truthful person.

I’m nothing if I’m not honest.

So when I replied to the pajama question

I said, “Of course – yes!”

The Back Story: This was all the outgrowth of a Social Studies Lesson on the Election. I explained, to my class, that I don’t watch much t.v. I told them I read the paper online in the morning. Somehow, that meshed with yesterday’s elapsed time Problem of the Day that involved how much time I need to get ready from the moment I wake up to the moment I leave my home in the mornings. Let’s just say, that when I told them I write in my pajamas in the mornings, they were in hysterics. Did they think I sleep in my dress clothes (that I wear to school)?!?!? Gotta love the thinking and humor nine year-olds, right?