the hummingbirds in my neighborhood watching me refill their empty feeders

‘It’s in the technology of writing that we’ve preserved our boldest, most original thought, our best jokes and most generous comfort. To fail to do everything we can to help children hear that song is a cruelty.’

Katherine Rundell on children’s literature
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tonight mothers are warning their children to brush their teeth and pick up their toys or else in the middle of the night Kendrick Lamar will write a song about them.

“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”