Five Cent Balloons
PIETRO has twenty red and blue balloons on a string. They flutter and dance pulling Pietro's arm. A nickel apiece is what they sell for. Wishing children tag Pietro's heels. He sells out and goes the streets alone.
Carl Sandburg
PIETRO has twenty red and blue balloons on a string. They flutter and dance pulling Pietro's arm. A nickel apiece is what they sell for. Wishing children tag Pietro's heels. He sells out and goes the streets alone.
A street vendor named Pietro carries twenty red and blue balloons that tug and bob as if alive. They cost only a nickel, and the neighborhood children follow him, hoping to buy one. The scene is bright and full of movement: color, dancing balloons, eager kids at his heels.
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