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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