at my house is the door with a lock

On my street, here on the Earth, in the center of town
On top of the Earth that is spinning us round

On the Earth in my house with four legs on the floor
On my bed, in our galaxy, with a front door

In the Milky Way galaxy, down on my block
In the house with four legs, and a door with a lock

On the Earth, in the Universe, I lay my head
On a street in my town with a room and a bed

And somewhere out there is your very own street
In a room with a floor and a bed with four feet

XVIII

NEON CAN BEAT ANYONE!

Neon is better than everyone at video games.

He has a game where you can race the fastest cars in the world. No
one is faster than Neon. He has a game where you can play football.
No one can tackle Neon.

He has a game where you can battle monsters. The monsters run away
when they see Neon coming. He has a game where you can catch fish.
Neon catches fish bigger than the boat.

Sometimes Neon plays his with brother Greg. Neon always wins. They
play a game where you fly planes to see who's a better pilot. Neon
flies circles around Greg. Neon's so good that none of his friends
want to play him. They go outside instead. Sometimes Neon wishes he
were outside playing with his friends.

One Monday, Neon gets a new video game. He plays it all day Tuesday
and sleeps with the remote in his hand. He beats it on Wednesday. He
is so excited that he goes outside to tell his friends during their
soccer game.

He is going to ask them "Have you ever beaten a game in three days?"
He's sure they will say "No," and then he will tell them that he did
something they have never done. "Wait till the game's over," they
say.

So he waits. And waits. And waits. "Can I play," he asks, and they
say, "Yes." Neon has never played soccer before, but he actually
likes it. He's not the best player on the field, but that's okay and
nobody makes him feel bad about it. After the game he is very tired,
but he's glad that he played.

"What did you want to ask us?" they say. "Can we play again
tomorrow?" he asks. Now Neon is better at real soccer than he is at
video game soccer.

XIX

NIGHT HIPPOS

By an African river known as the Nile,
The sun fell away and it rested a while.

The rhinos were tired from the smoldering heat,
So they laid down to sleep and they wiped off their feet.

The elephants marched to their elephant beds
And gently they rested their elephant heads.