Bob

It was going to be my first pet.
I was the happiest kid alive
My heart beating fast, faster, too fast!
“Where should I wait?”
Then, I was at the kitchen table
And I saw it:
The brightest red I’d ever seen.
As he drove around his bubble,
I could see his lonely emotion.
I could see my lonely emotion.
I was only 4,
But I took him to my room
Fed him and named him
Bob.
I wanted an original name.
As I watched my bright pet
For 3 straight hours I thought,
“Could I possibly be happier?”
For a kid my age who didn’t want to go to school
To stay with Bob,
The answer was a big
NO.