¶ … Zebra in the Room
Wore a purple dress. It matched my shoes
Which I bought the other day at Macy's.
The zebra said, "Why don't you have some dessert?"
To which I responded that I was getting fat.
"When I was a kid," the zebra said,
"I was fat." He left it at that and finished his cake.
But he did not shut up because he had something to say. The zebra talked about the taste of the grass in the fynbos, and how delicious it was before the baboons took over. The baboon mama was the worst, and used to eat flowers....
The fields were once filled with yellow flowers, bright and blossoming like suns. When the baboons came, the zebras watched with dismay as the flowers departed one by one. The baby baboons ate flowers too, and soon the fynbos dotted with little suns became and ordinary landscape with scrub and rocks and simple things but not flowers.
And that is why the zebra eats cake.
So I order a cake, thinking that it must taste like sunshine or at least like a yellow flower and the cake arrives and there are no baboons to be seen and no yellow flowers and no fynbos either. The…
white walls crept up around me as I slept in the darkness of my room He was in my dreams again. I wish he would stop haunting me. This time he appeared with a camera, which he held in front of his face first, then mine, and with the click of a button we were there, framed together. I did not like the effect. I would rather have him here with
Life Well Livid The mouth kept moving but the words that came out heard themselves and were embarrassed by the nature of things while me and the other primates watched the clock anxiously anticipating the bell. And there off! The boy with bad skin has the lead with the little girl with the yellow curls right behind. Here comes the Savior on the outside! But hedonist cuts him off and they all squeeze