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I was born right in the middle of a candy shop. Mama said the first thing I probably saw as I came out was the toy train rattling down its track through the store.
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That's because, as the story goes, she was busy dusting the miniature village which surrounded the track when her water broke.
ReplyDeleteI made quite a sensation just being born. I must never have gotten over it.
ReplyDelete"You're a natural at performing," people always tell me. It makes that warm feeling I always get from being in front of an audience fill up my chest and glow out my eyes and shine through the tiny cracks in between my teeth.
And then I hear a "choo-choo" wailing from the back of my memory somewhere. That doesn't give me as warm a feeling. More like flashes of hot/cold, hot/cold.
ReplyDeleteThe "choo-choo" brings me back to where I am right now. I hear one off in the distance.
DeleteSo what happened? How did I get here? How did I go from being born in the middle of a candy shop to standing in the middle of a desert, with very little water left for my survival?
ReplyDeleteThere is no one to perform to out here, unless you count the cacti. I think back to this morning in my bathroom. I smile at the memory and wince at my cracked lips. I did mention I'm a natural born performer didn't I?
DeleteThis means I'm performing all the time, even when I'm alone in front of the bathroom mirror. I line up the lavender and lime green soaps my mother never seems to run out of next to the toothbrushes and dental floss. They are my audience.
ReplyDeleteIf I hadn't been so desperate for an audience I wouldn't have been tricked into getting stranded here in the desert. I am in serious trouble. Survival skills aren't high on my list of accomplishments.
DeleteWhere are the toothbrushes and dental floss when I need them?
ReplyDeleteI trudged toward the road. Maybe I could hitch a ride with someone back to town. Mama always told me not to get in the car with strangers. Well Mama wasn't stranded here waiting for a heat stroke.
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