Word of the day: Piebald
having patches of black and white or of other colours; parti-coloured
and a child asks his mother
why the sky is blue and birds can fly
but why not pigs and why not us
and the mother tells him to hurry along now
stop looking at the cow and asking questions
about why it is black and white
and not brown like the others
they had just walked past
and the child hurries along
walking around a puddle in the middle of the road
and not jumping right into it like he would have
if only he had been alone
and the mother lets out a sigh relief
because she now doesn't have to
wash mud-stained clothes when they
get home and can instead
put the groceries away and get started on dinner
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