Crackers for lunch

If you don’t have a red balloon

if you don’t have a moon pie 

in your lunchbox 

if you’ve never had 

crackers for lunch 

if you never walked a mile 

down the dirt road 

to catch a school bus

there are probably things 

you have done I don’t understand 

but this is my world 

Slapping in it horseflies

dusty bare feet and all 

If you were old enough 

and you swam in the creek 

and ate commodity cheese 

then maybe you’ve been 

to my house once or twice.