the four holiday months
the first four holiday months
while the year turns cold and brown
brown and red and orange construction paper
paste and safety scissors
the heft of the four holiday months
the heady four holiday months
math and social studies
Beth and Sheila studies
While the year turns red and brown

Beth West and Sheila Shane
Always talking together
Always sitting together
Always planning something
With their EZ bake hairdos
With their easy summer tans
With their soft summer hands
Such tanned slender hands

Owlishly they watch you
Owlishly note your achievements
Owlishly they watch the stars
Their heads go back and forth
They laugh disparagingly
Oh they're so blue and blonde!

You take Beth, and I'll take Sheila
We'll walk them down to Sav-On
We'll get bing cherry cones at the counter
Superballs, baseball cards and gum
We'll outdo each other to impress them
We'll caper and yell and preen and swim
Back flips and belly flops
While the girls yawn and yaw on the chaise
While the girls cheek and chew on the chaise
While the sun has its way with the girls
Taking liberties no boy'd ever dare

And so the year turns read and brown
Stack it over with the others
Stack it over in the collapsing stack
Stack it over in the infinite thin pictures
Thick in your cockpit of infinite think pictures