Elucidating Questions

Once, when I was in Brownies

There was a misunderstanding

The leaders prepared pudding with Oreo dusting and filled with gummy worms

They stuck a stem of mint in it, to give the pots the look of containing a plant

To create a reaction when the leaders started eating what appeared to ten year olds to be dirt

I had become excited at the idea of raising this plant

And when I found out it was dead, and dessert

I cried

When I returned from work yesterday my wonderful upstairs neighbour and landlord had left me a treat from her son’s party

We had been thinking about that plant

We laughed while enjoying the dessert we hadn’t been able to nearly two decades earlier

While sitting on the floor of our kitchen far away from any friends or leaders or my mother who was one of the leaders

If only for a minute

We were happy all alone