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The bowl ran away with the spoon, which sounds a bit flighty, unless you knew the bowl.
Holy cow! What came after couldn't have been forestalled, given the filthy kitchen floor that was at the bottom of it. From the moment she saw that floor, she wanted to attack it with mop and sudsy water. But stone the crows! It wouldn't have sufficed to use a mop. This floor needed a brush or two, and it definitely needed the old hands-and-knees treatment.
But the bowl had had enough of that sort of thing. And the spoon remembered being on the floor once, having been thrown from the highchair tray by a charming but "I'm-2-and-don't-you-forget-it" toddler.
Even without the floor, it seemed like a good house to get away from: screaming toddlers, haggard mothers—the whole ball of wax.
But jeepers creepers! Where were they to go, this bowl and this spoon? Tom Robbins had already written the book about the traveling quartet (what? a red stick? a can of beans? a spoon? what else?) and he hadn't invited these two. Okay. They'll create their own story.
The bowl and the spoon,
on the way to the moon,
looked back at the kitchen floor.
How filthy it was.
It needed some Duz.
So the two of them walked out the door.
1 comment:
there were five items in the robbins novel:
not a red stick, but a painted. stick; a conch shell; a spoon; a can of beans; and a dirty sock.
and the first sentence of your post really made me laugh. :-)
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