As I was heading into work, my mind started
- As I was heading into work, my mind started to drift from one topic to another. I wondered if I had left the coffee maker on? Was I teaching 9 English or 10 History first? When
- would I take my lunch break.I was so worried the students would'nt like me.I tried to shake these thoughts away, but i somehow knew today would not go well.
- Sure enough when I unpacked my double boiler and began separating egg whites for space cake meringue. I got some funny looks, but after I convinced Ethel the lunch lady to bake it
- like she meant it, the cakes improved. Ethel. Sad lunch lady. Why did she wait for me to inspire her. Is it that mass of slack skin waggling from her arms that keeps her down?
- Ethel's underarm skin was caked in years of chile con carne and baked beans con neglect. "I'm gonna make you more aerodynamic, lunch lady," I said. I wrapped her in a giant hairnet
- and plucked all the black hairs growing out of her facial mole. Ah what the heck...I went ahead & burned off her mole too for added aerodynamics. Ethel could fly now with much more
- Speed than I could. The spedometer was loosely attached to my wrist so it would not fall to Earth. David Bowie, while falling to Earth, grabbed it and put it in his pocket.
- "Ziggy Stardust!" I cried, watching David Bowie hurtle towards the earth, taking my spedometer with him. "There's a starman waiting in the sky!" he advised, and sure enough,
- his re-entry to the earth's atmosphere had turned him into a ball of flame that many mistook for a meteor, but I knew it was really Bowie's soul, re-born as another kind of star.
- I lived my lighter into the air and began to sing. "There's a starman waiting in the sky..." I could feel the warmth of Bowie's soul even from where I stood. It was
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- 2012-08-06 03:15:37
- Finished
- 2016-07-13 13:36:13
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xxkahloxx Jul 13 2016 @ 23:39
Baked beans con neglect is my new favorite folding phrase.