Never Take Candy from a Stranger or Maybe You Should...

we sat outside
D
Q
benchside
when an-almost-stranger-8-year-old boy
asked,
"How would you explain to a child where I came from?"

I started to laugh
but saw
very plainly,
he was serious.
very.

"I'd tell him he needed to ask his parents about it.."
and turned to the curious-boys-mom
to forewarn her.