Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, Ilana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book
Meir Wieseltier
1968
She turns the pages, naked uncles
so naked and skinny, run and
even aunties with fannies showing
and others in pajamas as in a show
with yellow cloth stars sewed on.
And everybody so ugly and thin,
and big round eyes like chickens.
It’s awfully weird, so gray. Ilana has pencils—red
and blue and green and yellow and pink.
So she goes to her room
…
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