A pop-pop-pop plants sky flowers

They shine and dance and say hello

Mama says they rain down like showers

I’ll think long about it from my pillow

Some of them look like shapes

Circles and stars and other things

One even looks like a crazy ape

I like the whistling one that sings

Everyone loves it just the same

They cheer and yell and clap

I wish they’d up there spell my name

My feet stomp tap-tap-tap!

Daddy gets me an icy drink

And a yuck one for himself

Mommy sneaks some candy, winks

And says ‘don’t worry about the health’

Smoke from up and down and side

Dad throws hands high, higher, high

I time it right from on the slide

I hit the grass and boom and sigh

A rocket shoots off from my hand

No one sees the magic

I become master of the land

Secretly I know it’s just a gadget

Someone screams here’s the finale

My face lights up, boom boom boom

Once it’s done we cut through the alley

I’m not even tired, zoom zoom zoom

That changes right inside the car

Mom and dad know I’m done

I still smell smoke even this far

I drift off to sleep, the flowers gone