Dirty Joke(For Miss S)

The wind in a loud guffaw tells the wind chimes a dirty joke and the wind chimes polite to the last try not to laugh but first one & then...they can’t suppress a little tinkle a titter of laughter even the little bell above the door joins in with a musical chuckle but when I step out onto the balcony I find they have managed to control themselves and all is quiet. Yet when I turn to go back in they all snigger behind my back. Even the flowers in the corner have to laugh so I laugh too not even knowing what the joke was all about. ******* DIT DE DAH DIT (for Scarlett) I’m learning Morse Code from Corporal Acting Sargent Byrne. Cpl/Sgt. Dots & Dashes we call him for fun. He dit de dit dahs at me. Enquires of me...what he has sent. I consult my notepad as if it was an oracle The furious dots dashing across the page. “I think it says...I guess...? ” “Enemy at...? ” “Send something something something or other! ” “Asp! ” Yes... I get the asp. He snorts like a horse I almost expect him to eat hay and say neigh. I suddenly realising that if they were depending on me we would all be dead or surrounded and surrendering. Realising too that Morse Code may not be my forte! ******* DEAR GOD IF...? (for Lyn) “Dear God if... You are invisible try to be fair and let us see you too.” Listen to my little sister tell her prayers to the dark as if it were a real live God. Yeah, God that goes for me too! But the dark like God doesn’t listen. I look in a moment later and she is sleeping. I wonder what she is dreaming.