Restless Children
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Ava Fyfe, Grade 9
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Poetry
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2022
One, two, three: lock the door eleven times
Appease the children
Four, five, six: scrub your hands until they bleed
Assure them back to their beds
Seven, eight, nine: place the phone in the perfect position
Hush the little ones to sleep
Ten, eleven, twelve: check the power points are off again
And wait
Wait until they awake again wailing
Petrified of demons and deteriorating your sanity