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Lil' Barbara McMillin And The Seat-Less Out Of Control Bicycle

By:  Brandon Schlong
Written: 10/12-15, 2006
Fucked and Formatted: April/2013
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The gentle crackle of the smoldering logs
That lie deep in the fire-pit before me 
Composes a faltering, off-beat melody
That I cannot seem to recall.
Under the influence of a steady wind
(And a tropical storm that has darkened the Earth)
The Netherworld Musicians quicken their pace.
Ritualistic Jungle-Barbarians ward off all sources of Evil
By unleashing their frenzied, systematic incantations 
To the God of Energy.
To pronounce this amoral God’s name
One would have to remove one’s own colon
And squeeze the organ from one end to the opposite.
The slobbery, phlegmy noise that is spat 
Out of the dripping, human bung-holder 
Is the actual name.
It is a name reserved for Immortals
With all-enlightening powers.
A guttural chant that suddenly
And with absolute-focus-devotion to this Mutant-Mind-Voyeur
Molecule-Vertigo-Dissipation...
I am brought back into the physical world
With the story of how I met Barbara McMillin.
‘Twas 1987 and ashamed we both were…
Existing together, however briefly, in the waiting room
Outside Principal Kundert’s office during 4th period.
10:52 A.M.
Barbara:  age nine, grade 4 (as I later discovered)
Seemed to have had a bit of an accident that
I can’t really describe in normal literary structures.
A series of sentence fragments will have to be the basis
For any mental images related to this story.
So it was told:
Bike-Riding-Barbara-Speeding-Out-of-Control…
Bike-Riding-Barbara’s-Bike-Hits-The-Curb…
Next-to-the-Side-Walk-by-the-Monkey-Bars-Front-Tire-Intact…
Causes-Barbara’s-Seat-to-Come-Loose-Unceremoniously…
Into-the-Welcoming-Outstretched-Arms…
Of-Pillow-Soft-Vitamin-Enriched-Wisconsin-Grass…
The grass blanketed the surrounding areas
Like an army of Cashmere fingers extending from 
The aboriginal hands of a silk-skinned, fur-faced species
Known as Plesiousaur-Homo-Biped 
In and around a 16th-century South American colony
Frequented and subsequently governed by the White Man.
Bike-Hits-Curb…
Seat-Flips-Off…
Unbeknownst-To-Barbara-the-Bouncing-Around-in-the-Air…
But-Still-Evidently-Gripping-the-Hand-Grips-Girl…
Under-the-Deceptive-Ignorant-Delusion…
That-A-Violent-Jolt-to-Her-Bike-Frame…
(Such as the aforementioned “Bike-Fucker-Upper”)
Would-leave-the-hand-tightened-nut-and-bolt-"tune-up"
For-Barbara’s-new-bike-by-lazy-ol’-Lenny-McMillin-completely-intact.
The beet-faced girl shrieked without inhibition 
After Gary Gravity
Entered this anti-climatic punch-line.
Lil' Barbara McMillin sat there next to me…
She seemingly hovered over the two, feather pillows
That were snuggled under her bottom.
She was holding back tears as I stood motionless.
The all-consuming itchiness was making me sweat.
I was anxious for the moment I could get out of my gym clothes.
Indeed, Lil’ Barbie McMillin landed on the 
Autumn-cooled-point-of-an-exposed-and-recently-liberated 
Of-its-banana-shaped-helmet-adorned-leader-and-master:  
The Bike Seat.
Beholder of a near-flawless reputation for posterior comfort
And prepubescent anus protection.
She landed on that bike-seat-stem
Like some mythical, born-without-a-cerebellum-Mongoloid-dum-dum.
But that's as far as her story goes.
Lil’ Brandon however, our fat, little, over-eating story-teller
I guess, likes to poop his pants in the presence of other students
During gym class when he tries to do a pull-up.
Lil’ Brandon decides not to tell Gym Teacher Montgomery
(Or anybody else, for that matter)
And allows class to proceed without interruption.
It seems Gym Teacher Randy Montgomery
Was thinking that sit-ups were in order for the next exercise.
After five, perspiration-soaked-human-Play-Doh-Factory-imitations
The wheezing, confused, wild-eyed boy
Stands up without a word.
Randy, the clever, fucking gym teacher
Asks casually with a smile reaching his heavy-lidded, crimson eyes 
“Whatta-ya think yer doin'? 
Ya got poop in yer pants or what?”
I can still feel that heavy, bouncing poop-ball
Slap against my butt-crack as I ran to the office call my Mom…

The End


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