Yeah, I don't remember anything about love or crushes from the time before my old lady...
So here is someone elses crush instead:
In the fifth grade, I proposed to a girl named Denise Johnson, out on  the lunch court. White blobs of seagull and pigeon shit rained form the  sky. Denise said she wanted me to propose properly, between the gym and  the cafeteria, after school. I combed my regular boy's, and wiped my  modern glasses. At ten after three, I met Denise between the two  buildings. I was shivering and my mouth was dry and tasted horrible. I  got down on my knees on the shit-splotched blacktop in front of Ms.  Johnson. My mouth was just level with her groin. I looked up at her  pretty brown face and long, strait, black hair. She looked down at my  damp cheeks and smiled benignly. "Denise, you are the prettiest,  smartest girl in the whole school. Will you marry me?" My insides  chattered against each other as I spoke the words. My face was livid and  silly. I could feel my eyeballs bulging in their bone sockets, my knees  ached. "Ha ha ha ha ha! You're too ugly! You look like you've been  whooped with an ugly stick! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Her face had changed  to a contemptuous snarl. Misty lavender donuts of shame appeared in  front of my eyes. Suddenly a mob of snickering boys and girls jumped out  from around the back corner of the cafeteria. They surrounded us,  laughing and jeering. I stood up, wobbling, a lump in my throat, my  asshole pinched tight. Denise joined the circle of snapping cruel  children. She stood next to Rudy Stoltz, the handsomest most popular boy  in the school. They held hands. "Fuck you, Jew-ass Bern-butt!," said  Rudy. I put my huge, clumsy hands over my face. A cantaloupe skin hit me  in the ear. I could hear the kids wandering away, giggling and  guffawing. When I took my hands away from my face, I was alone. There  was a thin white and green drool of seagull shit on my tan jacket. I  walked home through a network of alleys.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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3 comments:
jeez.. that was disturbing. Not sure that's what I was looking for, but you did it nonetheless. 2 more posts from other bloggers and you'll get my story.
Dang, that is depressing.
Stephen Jesse Bernstein.
It makes you wonder how those kids we knew that were like him in grade school turned out.
Did they too become avant-garde poets, hailed as great artists within their circle, who later slit their own throats on a beach somewhere?
We'll never know.
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