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| ***BIO*** Ronan Barbour currently lives in Santa Clara, California, where it's sometimes nice to walk under the purple sky at night and drink in the long constant howl. Some of his work can be found (or is forthcoming) in: My Favorite Bullet, Literary Vision, remark, Zygote in my Coffee, and The Pink Chameleon Online. ronan_barbour@yahoo.com |
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| things they never talk about |
| by Ronan Barbour |
| you know
I once saw the strangest thing at St. Martin's Private Catholic elementary school. mrs. Ratucchi was having us do some reading in our workbooks and we had thirty minutes to complete the assignment. I was bored and didn't want to look around the room at all the other students any longer so I raised my hand and asked miss 'Tucchi if I could go to the bathroom. she told me to be quick and to make sure that Yo-Han the little chinese boy who had been excused to the bathroom ten minutes ago, was all right. I left the classroom and walked down the hall. stopped outside the door of the boy's bathroom to take a drink from the water fountain and then walked in. inside the air was warm and smelled like poop. on the ground were many white trails of toilet paper zigzagging all over the place and all the sinks were running water but no one was there. then I heard someone laughing from behind one of the stalls in a long row to my right. I walked over to the first stall and looked under it and saw somebody crawling away from me on their hands and knees without any pants and underwear. it was Yo-Han, the little chinese boy. I don't know where his pants went but I saw him crawling from stall to stall flushing each toilet laughing and laughing and laughing: hee-hee-hee hee-hee-hee hee-hee-hee... but I didn't think it was very funny. |
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| July 2005 |