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Ride

Brian Looney

Obese, Caucasian child sits on a grimy, underfed camel. He grips, in each hand, a melting popsicle, which dribbles down his dimpled fists, trickles to his elbow and patters into the beast’s mangy fur. In fact, one wonders whether the curving valley between its humps was there before the bundle of joy had slunk on his back. The poor beast’s eyes are rolling in the whites. A dull, pink, sandpaper tongue lolls from its slackened, loose-jaw lips like a thick strand of bubblegum. The neck strains skyward, lame, knobby legs quiver, quiver, quiver upon the rust-colored pit. The well-worn rope about its muzzle is tautly held by the keeper, who leads it ‘round and ‘round in circles about himself, constantly turning with his arm outstretched to guide the failing camel, while the bundle of joy digs in his heels and whoops like the cowboys as seen on TV. His sugar-stuck jowls shiver with delight—a joy to the beholder, a promising boy. But then his turn is up.

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