They shoot the white girl first. That is what I tell myself
to get through the day. After a long day in the Diamond mines, Rico deserves a
break. I have traveled a long way to get where I am today. The story that follows
is my story.
It all began when I decided to
escape from the New York Zoo. The zoo had been good to me for a very long time,
but in recent years I began to feel neglected. Originally, I was the main
exhibit. A prominent giraffe that could hold his own against any other animal,
I fought for that spot. In return, I was handsomely rewarded with a spoon.
Overtime, my desire for spoons only grew. I began to fall in love. We were two
peas of the same pod, and we decided to leave this land, for a place more
excepting of our relationship. That place South Africa. Queue music, I’M
WALKING ON SUNSHINE. On our plane ride over to the promised land, spoon and I
got in a bad plane crash. As I was getting up from my seat I hadn’t compensated
for my long neck. I burst out the window with my giraffe head and the plane was
going down. My tongue was flopping everywhere, and people were screaming. The
plane crash landed on the island of Madagascar. I found the boys there. Good
ole Alex and Marty and Melman and who could forget Gloria. What a women. They
were hiding out because they didn’t want to make another movie. I had my own
problems though. Spooney was scatted across the island along with thousands of
other spoons from the plane. I searched day and night, with no end in sight I
feared the worst for my beloved. Eventually I found her, broken in three separate places. She needed special attention in sight. Lucky, the locals had just opened up a nice hospital down the road so I took her there. After a while I went out and
left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
Well, here I am in lab 237 smirking like an idiot. This story takes some pretty heavy first and last quotes and spins them into something completely original. I kind of sensed a Madagascar vibe when I started this but I thought it was clever how you actually mentioned the characters in that movie. "They were hiding out because they didn’t want to make another movie." This line almost made me laugh out loud, and trust me, you don't want to hear my cackle.
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Laura
That long neck...a blessing and a curse. And a cause for a plane crash. I suppose he and the spoon are connected because she too has a long slender neck/handle. Will she survive???
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ReplyDeleteI loved how lighthearted this was. The Madagascar reference was gold. By the end, you had me rooting for Rico's relationship with his spoon. I'm mesmerized by your ability to turn such serious first and last lines into something of comedy.
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