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Second-grade art class was fun! Remember the boxes of sixty-four crayons? Even their waxy whiff was enticing. Flip the top to see the bleachers filled with multi-colored cone hats. Sky-blue called out Pick Me! and we swiped thin lines to create our horizons. Forest-green called, Here I Am, and our stumpy hands constructed lollypop trees. Yellow winked at us to encourage our wobbly sun circles.
We continued to draw on our creativity until the third week when tragedy struck. Mark chewed on magenta as he grinned, bright pink dribbling down his chin.
DON’T EAT THE CRAYON! Mrs. Garson yelled as she crashed into the desk, toppled the hamster cage, and ran face-first into the cinder block wall.
Crayons are for coloring! Distraught, she hobbled back to her square desk.
Later at recess, we jumped rope as we chanted our fear:
Mark was peckish in class today –
He chomped on a crayon causing disarray–
