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When Mother or Father turns down the light, / I like to look into my pillow at night.
Some people call them dreams, but for me / They are things I look down in my pillow and see.
I saw some birds, as many as four, / That were all blue wings and nothing else more.
Without any head and without any feet, / Just blue wings flying over a street.
And almost every night I see / A little brown bowl that can talk to me,
A nice little bowl that laughs and sings, / And ever so many other things.
Sometimes they are plainer than I can say, / And while I am waking they go away.
And when nobody is coming by, / I feel my pillow all over and try
And try to feel the pretty things, / The little brown bowl and the flying wings.