Children in America

go to the library to learn how to administer NARCAN
to stop their mother or father’s heart from overdosing. 

The president tells the people to inject sunlight directly 
into the lungs. I go outside and open my mouth. 

Because they have no teeth, the birds swallow stones. 
A jaw full of teeth makes you too heavy to fly. Birds 

need sunlight to oil their feathers and burn out parasites. 
A bird has a song for the sun each morning 

to let it know it survived the night.