Picking My Nose And Finding A Submarine
By J. Marcus WeekleyI shake all the Navy men from the minute boat. They fall screaming into the bathtub where they drown. One survives, so I trap him on the raft of soap, with the rubber ducky to guard him. The sailor's name is Seymour-he likes to be called "Jones"-but his wife and thirteen kids don't know his secret name like I do. I sing him "Happy Birthday" because it's his twenty-first. I tell him he's really old, like Abraham Lincoln. He's sad because I don't have any candles and the ducky won't sing along and all his friends are gone. I tell him they actually survived by swimming to another island where they eat chocolate and peanut-butter cookies all day. He wants to know why there aren't any girls in this ocean, but I sink his raft and he drowns and now it is time to go to bed.
That's right. I get to write a paper on this story.
posted by lulu @ 6:48 PM
4 Comments:
um.......i don't think so. But that could be an interesting twist for the paper. Wonder what my partner will think about it.
Hmm..remember how you once said you were afraid I could read your mind?..Well Im afraid now!!..Jesus!..Isnt it more than a coincidence that we both have a entry on our blogs about babies, bathtubs and rubber ducks?? Did someone say sexual undertones?! Lulu you seeing the pattern here?
(covers his head so as to not haev anyone read his brain waves..)
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i think a very interesting angle for the paper would be the angry feminist undertones of rage contained therein. poor misogynistic seymour/james doesn't even reveal his secret name to the woman who had to labor with his 13 kids, whom she's left totally in charge of while he's off galivanting around the bathtub sea with his buddies and guns...but he gets his due in the end when unexpectedly drowned for his crass purile comments regarding the lack of elligible women in the ocean where he is trapped. i'm not sure how you can fit the ducky into the analysis, but i'm sure its possible.
um, I think it's a bit homoerotic, maybe a little goofy, something different...I think y'all are crazy...jump around
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