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Balloons

Brian Looney

    Buy a balloon at the petting zoo. Bunches of them, multi-colored, protruding from the stands, a disorderly line before each one. The children are in motion: leaping, bobbing, whirling. They whip their arms like windmills, or kick their sneakered feet, or launch their little torsos.

    And all around, the voices. A whole mess of sound, a cacophony of youthful peals and yelps, of wails and whines and whimperings—coupled with the groans and guffaws of fenced-in mammals. The air is ripe, heavy with dung, with hay and feed. It merges to form a sour scent which summons tears, burning tears, until the eyes adapt.

    There is the carousel in endless rotation, a slow display of humanoids, the homunculus in joy. You have only to extend your arm and caress their manes or pat their cheeks, or proffer your bits of candy—and watch them greedily snatch it from your tempting fingers; watch them plunge their fists into their maws, bulging rosy cheeks.

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