Uploaded on November 25, 2011
When I build a tower,
A house, or a town,
They always say, “Lovely!
Now please take it down,
And put all your blocks
Very neatly away—”
And I usually do,
But I didn’t, today.
If Daddy has books
That are still staying out,
And Mother has sewing things
All strewn about—
I just don’t see why
They should worry or frown,
Because, just for once,
My quite hard-to-build town
Is up — when I simply
Don’t want it all down!
—Kathryn Jackson
The Golden Book of 365 Stories
11.25.2023: I could not agree more.