Monday, March 22, 2010

The Next Secret Weapon

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.
A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb.
And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.
It would explode high in the air - explode softly
- and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.
Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas.

And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight.
Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.
With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach
and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.

And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces
and cover the world with imagination.

Robert Fulghum

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