What Is That?

Fallon didn't know many words yet;

But she did know three words;

Which made one very important question;

What is that?

And Fallon said it;

And said it again;

And said it again;

And again;

She said it all the time;

It was all she ever said;

How are you, Fallon?

What is that?

Fallon would reply;

Good morning, Fallon;

What is that?

Fallon would say again;

Say mama;

Fallon mom would say;

What is that?

Fallen would call her mom;

What is that?

And her dad was also called;

What is that?

She said it;

Home, in the car, at the store;

Everywhere she went, it was everything she said;

At first, people thought it was adorable;

But eventually, visiting fell and started to become curiously stressful;

People started studying before coming over to visit her;

They reviewed flash parts;

They made up more presentations;

They met up in study groups and quizzed each other;

They would spend the whole night before;

Visiting Fallon, googling random objects;

They came prepared;

Which became stressful;

At first;

Answering family's questions was easy;

That's a spoon, that's a clock, that's a lamp;

A shoe, another shoe;

But after a while, something strange started happening;

I don't stop feeling so confident;

A spoon wasn't just a spoon anymore;

What was a spoon?

Who decided it was called a spoon?

And why, and when, and where;

One day Fallon pointed out a lamp;

What is that?

Her mom stared at it for three hours;

Wait, she said, what is that?

Fallon had done the unthinkable;

She had made everyone question everything;

Now everyone was saying, what is that?

But something unbelievable happened;

Fallon's mom stated out a banana asking, what is that?

And Fallon responded with two words that she ever said before;

Existential crisis;

The end;

The end;