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roachboy · 11-19-2008, 04:22 PM

C. Tenerife
Popcorn Boy's Diary

I decided to start a journal this is my journal hello journal. I have started other journals before. Who am I talking to when I write in one of these? I do not talk to anyone except about popcorn. I work at the popcorn stand near the Biosphere, the building shaped like a cup of popcorn in the middle of the parking lot that's the one. Every day I discover new things about people. Some people like butter. Others do not. Every day a new adventure.

In a little while, I will walk up my street, turn left, walk past some building and the big white sign with the number 30 in the middle of it. Every day a new adventure.

The street I live on is named for a canary. I think that's stupid. If you are reading this you already know where I live because you had to be in my crappy little apartment to find this I am not showing it to anyone. Well, the street you walked up, the last one, is named for a canary. That's stupid isn't it? Yes it is.

If you are reading this, you must have come looking for me. Maybe I did something that made me famous on tv. Maybe I won a contest and then had a heart attack and died. Where did he go? you asked and then you came up the street named for a canary and said "that's stupid" see you're just like me. So you found me because I was famous and you wondered where I went.

Once when I was a kid in school they gave us a test that asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said I wanted to check tin cans for dents. I thought that would be like walking around in a store reading labels. Things are all different from other things and you can only tell by reading the labels that is why I like doing it. Like this box of mac and cheese. On the side, it says ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (DURUM WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CITRC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, MILK, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE). Mac and cheese is all these things. Every day a new adventure.

And there's this stuff too: Pork Stock, Pork, Pork Skins, Corn Meal, Pork Livers, Wheat Flour, Pork Fat, Pork Hearts, Salt, Spices. I do not eat these things. I buy a package on pay day and keep it on my table next to this notebook and sometimes I stop writing or doing other things and poke it. All these things jiggle when you poke them they are fun. After a while, these things start to get hard and green and then they are not so much fun any more then I throw them out in their plastic house and next payday I get another one and put it on the table next to my notebook so sometimes I can stop writing and poke it. But I do not always write in my notebook sometimes I do other things and sometimes I stop doing those other things to poke that stuff. There are many things inside of other things and some of them are fun to poke the way your finger goes in a little and it jiggles when you take your finger out is funny it makes me laugh. If you are reading this there is some next to you. Poke it. Unless it is green and kind of hard. Then throw that one out and next payday come back and you can bring another one and try it then. See? You're just like me. Then the guidance counselor called me to his office and asked me why I wanted to check tin cans for dents and I told him what I just told you and then he asked me why I did not want to work in an office and I said that working in a office was just sitting in a chair and so everything was the same all the time all the time and that was B.O.R.I.N.G. He looked at me for a few minutes I didn't have anything more to say so I looked back at him and we looked at each other for a few minutes I remember.

Then the guidance counselor called my parents and then my parents started yelling at each other and then they took me to a doctor who gave me these pills. I do not know how to say this word so I will spell it. M.E.T.H.Y.L.P.H.E.N.I.D.A.T.E.

They make me feel funny.

Then the doctor stopped paying attention to me my mom and dad kept yelling at each other and then my dad left and then my mom stopped paying attention to me, and then the guidance counselor stopped paying attention to me, and then people at school stopped paying attention to me. I was just there. I like to drink all these things at the same time water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, red 40, blue 1 every can is many things inside and I thought that looking at them would be good to do and then I said that and then everything changed.

I have to go to the popcorn stand in the parking lot now maybe later I will write down more things.

11-19-2008, 04:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	C. Tenerife Popcorn Boy's Diary I decided to start a journal this is my journal hello journal. I have started other journals before. Who am I talking to when I write in one of these? I do not talk to anyone except about popcorn. I work at the popcorn stand near the Biosphere, the building shaped like a cup of popcorn in the middle of the parking lot that's the one. Every day I discover new things about people. Some people like butter. Others do not. Every day a new adventure. In a little while, I will walk up my street, turn left, walk past some building and the big white sign with the number 30 in the middle of it. Every day a new adventure. The street I live on is named for a canary. I think that's stupid. If you are reading this you already know where I live because you had to be in my crappy little apartment to find this I am not showing it to anyone. Well, the street you walked up, the last one, is named for a canary. That's stupid isn't it? Yes it is. If you are reading this, you must have come looking for me. Maybe I did something that made me famous on tv. Maybe I won a contest and then had a heart attack and died. Where did he go? you asked and then you came up the street named for a canary and said "that's stupid" see you're just like me. So you found me because I was famous and you wondered where I went. Once when I was a kid in school they gave us a test that asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said I wanted to check tin cans for dents. I thought that would be like walking around in a store reading labels. Things are all different from other things and you can only tell by reading the labels that is why I like doing it. Like this box of mac and cheese. On the side, it says ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (DURUM WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CITRC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, MILK, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE). Mac and cheese is all these things. Every day a new adventure. And there's this stuff too: Pork Stock, Pork, Pork Skins, Corn Meal, Pork Livers, Wheat Flour, Pork Fat, Pork Hearts, Salt, Spices. I do not eat these things. I buy a package on pay day and keep it on my table next to this notebook and sometimes I stop writing or doing other things and poke it. All these things jiggle when you poke them they are fun. After a while, these things start to get hard and green and then they are not so much fun any more then I throw them out in their plastic house and next payday I get another one and put it on the table next to my notebook so sometimes I can stop writing and poke it. But I do not always write in my notebook sometimes I do other things and sometimes I stop doing those other things to poke that stuff. There are many things inside of other things and some of them are fun to poke the way your finger goes in a little and it jiggles when you take your finger out is funny it makes me laugh. If you are reading this there is some next to you. Poke it. Unless it is green and kind of hard. Then throw that one out and next payday come back and you can bring another one and try it then. See? You're just like me. Then the guidance counselor called me to his office and asked me why I wanted to check tin cans for dents and I told him what I just told you and then he asked me why I did not want to work in an office and I said that working in a office was just sitting in a chair and so everything was the same all the time all the time and that was B.O.R.I.N.G. He looked at me for a few minutes I didn't have anything more to say so I looked back at him and we looked at each other for a few minutes I remember. Then the guidance counselor called my parents and then my parents started yelling at each other and then they took me to a doctor who gave me these pills. I do not know how to say this word so I will spell it. M.E.T.H.Y.L.P.H.E.N.I.D.A.T.E. They make me feel funny. Then the doctor stopped paying attention to me my mom and dad kept yelling at each other and then my dad left and then my mom stopped paying attention to me, and then the guidance counselor stopped paying attention to me, and then people at school stopped paying attention to me. I was just there. I like to drink all these things at the same time water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, red 40, blue 1 every can is many things inside and I thought that looking at them would be good to do and then I said that and then everything changed. I have to go to the popcorn stand in the parking lot now maybe later I will write down more things. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 11-19-2008 at 04:37 PM..