I like to stay up
and listen
when big people talking
jumbie stories

I does feel
so tingly and excited
inside me

The living room remembers Gran dancing to Count Bessie.
The kitchen can still hear my aunts fighting on Christmas Day.
The hall is worried about the loose banister.

How many books have you written?
Have you been writing for years?
Where do you get all the paper?
Where do you get your ideas?

We goin' on a school trip today,
De whole class goin' to Whitney Bay,
Ah teckin' me ball an' bat with me
To play beach cricket, an' let me see,

She didn’t call for me as she usually does.
I shared my crisps with someone else.

I sat with someone else in assembly.
She gave me a funny look coming out.