Rhino Horns
I am pruning the roses when he comes to join me.
He picks off a huge thorn, licks it and pops it on his nose.
“Let’s play rhinos, Mum”
He picks one for me and carefully places it on my nose.
“Grrrrrr… I’m a rhino”, he butts toward me.
“Grrrrrrrr”, I butt back.
“Let’s imagine we’re at Werribee”, he says.
“Not Africa?” I think to myself. A tinge of sadness wafts over me, but it does not last long.
“Butt, butt”, he says in his best rhino voice.
“Butt, butt”, I reply.
He pops an extra thorn onto both of our noses. Now we’re double horned rhinos. And he runs off to play.
It is half an hour later before I realise that I still have two rose thorns on my nose.
I wonder what the neighbours thought!
Today I am grateful.
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