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It moves through imaginative explanations: sky creatures cleaning up a mess, a curse placed on the earth, miraculous reversals from a mother’s prayers, lost household treasures that disappear, and finally an underground greedy demon that pulls everything downward. The dialogue blends wonder, humor, and moral-like insistence on alternative beliefs.","Sister, Sister, Why Don’t Things Fall  \nUp? Roopa Pai Greystroke  \nSister, sister, I wonder…What do you wonder, little brother, What do you wonder? I wonder, I wonder, why things don’t fall up. What do you think, little brother, What do you think? I think, I think…Tell me, little brother, what do you think?  \nI think That long ago, things did fall up That the sky was full of toffee wrappers And icecream sticks That stars slipped on banana peels That sometimes, the moon cut her dainty feet On bits of broken glass Or caught her trailing silver skirts On a rusty nail.  \nI think The old woman who lives in the sky Got so tired of cleaning the mess That she put a curse on the earth; And things have fallen down ever since.  \nI think that’s why things don’t fall up Because the old woman in the sky Was fed up of living in a smelly pigsty. I’m clever, aren’t I, sister?  \nOh yes, you are, little brother, And maybe you’re right, too… But in the books that I have read That is not what they said. Then what did they say, sister, What did they say? What do you think, little brother, What do you think? I think, I think…Tell me, little brother, what do you think?  \nI think That long ago, things did fall up And drove Mother mad. Father’s keys, The screw of her nose-stud, The coins you were tossing from hand to hand (even though you knew Mother would scold if she knew) On your way back from the market; All fell up and disappeared.  \nMother prayed to all her Gods. One of them took pity on her, And things fell down and vanished no more . Mother was happy (for awhile) Now she complains about the mess on the floor. I think that’s why things don’t fall up All thanks to a woman’s pleas For fewer lost coins, and screws, and keys. I’m clever, aren’t I, sister?  \nI know you are, little brother, And maybe you’re right, too… But in the books that I have read That is not what they said. Then what did they say, sister, What did they say? What do you think, little brother, What do you think? I think, I think…Tell me, little brother, what do you think?  \nI think There is a big greedy demon inside the earth All day he waits, his mouth a gaping hole Sucking in mighty lungfuls of air…And nothing can fall up As long as he keeps sucking in—Everything heads towards that greedy hole.  \nI think Many things go right in. My marbles, your hairclips, The yummy laddoos Mother makes Which I don’t eat and you don’t eat But which disappear somehow. I think that is why things don’t fall up Because they hurtle earthwards to feed An underground demon’sgreed. 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