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Boy (whispering): there's a bomb in my backpack

Girl: no there isn't!

Boy: yeah there is!

Girl: if there was then you’d be exploding!

Boy: it already exploded in the bathroom at school!

Nanny (looking up from knitting): You should never ever talk about bombs at school.  They're very, very dangerous.  A lot of people get hurt.  It's not funny.

Girl (pointing at nanny): they could kill even you!

Boy (pointing at knitting): they could even kill your sweater!

Nanny (in french): yes, they could even kill my sweater...

(Andrew James Weatherhead is in graduate school for poem making.  He is a contributor to the literature blog HTMLGIANT.  He is originally from Chicago. http://andrew-vs-books.blogspot.com/)