Today Strummer...

I picked you up from school. You ran into my arms. You said goodbye to a friend. I offered you either of two kinds of gum. You chose the mint gum, but quickly it was stuck to the outside of car. You asked if we could go to the gas station so you could show me what kind of gum it was that you liked. You showed me. It was pretty much the same kind of gum I had given you. We saw Twinkies. We bought them. Then we went to go see if we could see some Iguanas. We saw one and thought that was going to be it, then, out of nowhere, somehow, you spotted one in a tree. That was neat, the iguana perched in the branches. I brought you to your Abuela's. You went to the front door and rang the bell, over and over and over. I pulled your hand down and laughed. I told you to stop, not to break the bell. Ms.Chief got her hold over you and you reached up again to ring the bell. I pulled it down and made a cup with one of my hands over the bell. You laughed heartily at the challenge I presented to you. You tried to pull my hand away from the bell. Then you flattened your hand and snuck it under my cup and rang the bell. Victory! Then we went inside. I watched you ride your tricycle around the back porch with more ferocious control than any professional could have done. My heart raced when I saw you head straight for the wall at such a speed, only to see you peel off in a turn at precisely the last moment before crash! I gave you a kiss and said I had to leave. You hugged me and said, "I love you." I said I love you too and told you to be careful. You told me to be carefuller. As I closed the door behind me, I heard the grinding pebble crunch of the plastic wheels on the tile and looked out to the back porch. I saw a flash of a red shirt go by, peddling with all its might. I'll never lose that image. The door closed. I trust you peeled off before crash!