My Lemonade Stand
BY REBECCA KAI DOTLICH
Cookies for sale!
And cake! One dime!
That’s what it says
on my cardboard sign.
I pile cookies on a plate.
I eat just one
and then, I wait . . .
I taste the cake
(one tiny slice)
I squeeze the lemons
and stir the ice;
I count and stack
the paper cups . . .
fresh lemonade
is coming up!
I count the bruises
on my knee . . .
won’t somebody buy something,
please?
Rebecca Kai Dotlich, “My Lemonade Stand” from Lemonade Sun. Copyright © 1998 by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. Reprinted by permission of Highlights for Children/Boyds Mills Press.
Source: Lemonade Sun and Other Summer Poems (Boyds Mills Press, 1998)