I wrote “A Boy’s
First Diary”(Snap Screen Press, 2007) in 2004. It is a collection of
true incidents from my childhood. I wrote it in non-rhyming quatrains to make
it easier for kids to read, but also felt adults would have a good time with
it. It is a collection of events that happened in those formative years of 4th
and 5th grades related from the viewpoint of an eleven year old. The
book has been extremely successful both with parents and boys and girls.
Glenn K. Currie
Campsite Toilets
I don’t like the
toilets when we go camping.
They’re like
Uncle Edwin’s outhouse, only bigger.
I worry about
falling through the seat.
They make the
opening too big for kids.
Grown-ups don’t
have to worry as much,
They can cover
the whole seat easy.
But kids have to
balance on the edge,
And some of the
holes are pretty deep.
Last night I had
to go really bad,
So I took the
flashlight and walked to the toilet.
I was sitting on
the edge and lost my balance.
I might have been
playing with the flashlight.
The flashlight
fell down into the hole.
It sank slowly
and the light shined up for a while.
It was a pretty
horrible death.
In the dark, I
knocked our toilet paper in the hole, too.
I used some
leaves from a bush.
I hope they
weren’t poison ivy.
I stubbed my toe
twice walking back.
It was really
dark and scary.
In the morning,
Dad was looking for the toilet paper.
I told him the
flashlight was in the hole.
He was more upset
about the toilet paper.
We used Time
magazine until Dad went to the store.
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