Thursday, June 16, 2005

Kidnappers and Blinking Lights

First they blindfolded me with a gortex, pink bandana.
Then they gagged me with a genetically-engineered hamburger bun the size of a pro-women's basketball.
Then, they fettered and chained me with string cheese and lots of old shoelaces tied together.
Then they threw me in the back of a car speeding up a mountain road.
Then they took me out of the car, removed my blindfold and we stood in silence on a bridge, watching dying stars in the river.

Ok… so I made some of this up.
They weren't really astronomy-high kidnappers. They were my adult students. And they didn't really gag me with a hamburger bun, or even really blindfold me.
But, they did throw me in a car navigating a mountain road at high speeds. And then we did stand in silent darkness watching fireflies along the river.
There was one truly breath-taking moment for me when my friend was looking, bowed in reverence, at the tiny, pulsating life force in the palm of his hand, and everything seemed to simultaneously come together and fall apart.
And then
They released the string cheese bindings around my chest, and my breath came back to me.

3 comments:

R. said...

You do get abducted a fair bit don't you? :)

"There was one truly breath-taking moment for me when my friend was looking, bowed in reverence, at the tiny, pulsating life force in the palm of his hand, and everything seemed to simultaneously come together and fall apart"

Thats sheer poetry!!!

:)

Bertissimo said...

Corinne
korina
my friend Ann was also abducted
by a little chihuaha japanese woman and her cat got your tongue chainsmoking boyfriend in his mob car for a four hour 'trip' to see some sites. the car ride lasted longer than the actual 'seeing' and what did she call it?
abductio, but there was no pink goretes...or was there

-c said...

r. and frustratedwriter- obese thanks to you!

bertissimo- nice free-stylin'! What's a gorete? Is it like a garotte or a berret or a Birettta? (I think those are ingredients for come kind of revolution:))