Red Rabbit, Black Rabbit
{#built from instructions for children's games}
David Tomaloff

i.

tapping each child's mother
resumes the process with older players

a group of people sit
& it walks around the circle

ii.

this child then rises
, grabs the rag
, &the process begins again

iii.

I wrote a letter
to my mother
, the way I
dropped it
, picked it up
& put it
in your pocket

not you, not you
, not you, not you

iv.

the boof must crawl between
the legs of the person to the right

the first person who gets to
the vacant space rejoins the circle

v.

this player becomes the runner

vi.

the names of other birds
-- like boy scout or crane

vi.

the throwing
of limbs or fists

not you, not you
, not you, not you

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