My Cardboard Balcony

Red-Hot Rocket by Belinda Roddie red-hot rocket in your pocket sushi cracker old backpacker smokes a ciggy while a piggy snorts a ballad eating salad thinking madness drinking sadness billiards cracking fat lips smacking distant screaming never dreaming

The Christmas pageant featured gingerbread house building, carols, and a nativity play. My son Theodore was playing one of the three Wise Men, and his older sister had sewn the costume for him. Since he was the one meant to bring in gold, we decided the outfit should have some gold touches to its purple hue. He wore it well for the most part...until he tripped on the stage and tore the robe wide open.