These little people
who have been
like the walking dead
for months on end
as the school days
droned on and on
Barely able to put
feet on floor
Groaning
in the glare
of the light
when Mama comes
to wake them up,
Are squealing
and bumping
and giggling
and building
and whumping
in the pre-dawn
hours of
the first day
of school vacation.
