sailboats are great! (unfinished no.2)

unfinished no.2

charlie wanted to sail since the first day he saw the sea
he ate his spinach and drank his chocolate milk
    so he could grow big and strong like all the sailors he saw
he built a blue sailboat out of popsicle sticks and
    bark from tough and tall trees
and sewed a patchwork sail from weathered tee shirt scraps and
    lonely yellow rain jackets
he packed his blue backpack full of cookies and crayons
    and set sail into the early morning sunrise

he sailed and explored and adventured across days and years and
    seasons, ages and eras and epochs of traveling time
and through rain and mist and sun showers and storms
    that howled like monsters in the nightlightless dark
the cottonball clouds and glowinthedark stars kept him company
    and he drew crayon kingdoms to remember all he'd seen
the castles and the rainforests and the deserts, and
    the cliffs and the icebergs and the tiny towns

one night the sunset glowed roseindigoblue on the horizon and
    charlie yawned as his sleepy eyes saw lights and land ahead
he knew he was home because of the way the little houses smiled all around
    and because his little brown dog waited waggingly for him on the dock
he jumped from his blue boat and ran up the hill to his house and
    found hot soup and a bowl of chocolate ice cream waiting for him



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challenge to make the world better: go outside and shovel someone's driveway for them. but don't wear all black and be super creepy about it. because then you might end up in the back of a police car. (human points, if you don't end up in jail: ten.) alternative: if you're at starbucks, buy a big hot chocolate and give it to the homeless person outside. because chances are, there's a homeless person outside. (human points: twelve).*

*human points may seem like arbitrary numbers. that's probably because they are. but wait, here's a scale:
 -->1-10: you're being a good human being.
 -->11-20: you're literally made of awesome. 
 -->21-30: you are out of this world good at being human. 
 --> anything above 31: either you're mother theresa, or you cheated.  

boxes of honey nut cheerios: three.