Needles
by Eli Dupree
Yes, you pricked your finger on a needle. Yes, I can understand how that makes you angry. No, I don't see why you felt like you had to smash the needle with a framing hammer. That was one of my favorite needles, you know. That was the needle I sewed your red sweater with, the one I patched your overalls with after... you know... If you keep this up, soon we will have no needles left, and I will have to get more and get to know them all over again!
No - you didn't get this upset when you crashed the car. Not even when you learned that the baby had died! You didn't like the baby much anyway, did you?!? - where are you going? - Ever since then, you just get mad at all my things - get back here! - the things I love --
 I love my needles. Wait! What are you doing--? Stay away from me with that framing hammer!!!

~(October 2007)