gingerbread friend.

i bought you in increments, making monthly payments and getting pieces of you like chocolate and pecan and brown sugar; i built you in my basement over the winter and you looked offended and ran away as soon as you had legs, but you left without most of your left arm, and the back of your head and your ears were only partially built. you trailed thoughts like cinnamon and rum flavouring from your open gingerbread skull.

silly and desperate, i left you notes and put up posters but you wouldn't come back and you wouldn't come back; i found your right arm, half-eaten, lying by the river on the edge of town; i dug you a little grave but some animal must have gotten into it and i won't try that way again.

8 comments:

  1. Tala AzarMay 23, 2008, 6:12:00 p.m.

    oh avery i would say this is jejune if it didn't have a negative meaning.. but it is playful and it makes me want to cry sort of like children make me want to cry because they are like birds and the world could quash them if it wanted to and they're so selfish and they don't realize it... i love this.

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  2. Liza CainMay 25, 2008, 11:31:00 a.m.

    so basically, by that logic, anything with a negative meaning is not jejune and therefor worth of consideration.
    Tala, you succeed at amusing me.

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  3. Tala AzarMay 25, 2008, 3:23:00 p.m.

    i meant, if the WORD JEJUNE DID NOT HAVE NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS. jenna, MISCONTSTRUE ME ONCE AGAIN AND ARM YOURSELF FOR A DUEL.


    oh, wait, YOU'RE ALREADY FAtALLY WOUNDED BY ME.

    P.S. PRETEND THAT THESE CAPITALS ARE WRITTEN IN TINY FONT SIZE AND THEY WILL BEGIN TO LOOK CAUTIOUS TO YOU, AVERY.

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  4. Tala AzarMay 25, 2008, 3:23:00 p.m.

    MISCONSTRUE*

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  5. AnonymousMay 26, 2008, 5:21:00 a.m.

    capitals never look *cautious*... other things yes, but not cautious.
    i am highly amused by this exchange.
    and i like the post, Avery, it sort of makes me expect somebody to come down the street putting up those posters with a forlorn, desperate look on their face.

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  6. Liza CainMay 26, 2008, 7:15:00 a.m.

    even the fatally wounded can still succeed in bringing down their opponents, pyrrhically speaking.

    SO THERE.

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  7. Janie KamenarMay 26, 2008, 9:43:00 p.m.

    start a duel somewhere else you terrible sillies.

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  8. Liza CainMay 28, 2008, 5:03:00 a.m.

    you hear that? we have been insulted! I demand an apology or else... I shall fight you with one hand tied behind my back and... blindfolded!

    I think I did that for purposes of grammar only.

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