The mother of two
tries to encourage her children
to pray to the Christian Savior God
every day. on schedule.
To her, faith is incremental
and manufactured.
The boy child reaches for the cupcake
that the three of them are sharing.
He tells the girl child that
the icing carrot on top is his
and he is going to take it.
The girl child says "we can split it!"
he says "no we can't it's mine
GIVE ME MY BRIDE!!!"
The mother of two obliges him
(perhaps his screaming is embarrassing)
and offers to let the girl child
have a cookie instead.
They sit next to each other by the fire:
the boy child eats the whole cupcake
and the girl child eats an M&M cookie
with a lost, forlorn look in her eyes.
she gets up and walks away
after the boy child asks
"how does that cookie taste?"
with a blob of white icing
on his nose.
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