the dwarf

we'd had our icecream cones
been scared by a dog
picked flowers
held hands in the sunlight.

my little girl is 6
and as good a girl as can
be.

we walked back to my place
where two ladies were moving
out of the apartment
next door.

one was a dwarf,
quite squat
with short trunk-like
legs.

"Hank, what's wrong with that
woman?"

I'm sorry, little lady,
that my child didn't know
that there wasn't anything
wrong with you.