“Bird's Eye - Associated Content”

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Bird's Eye - Associated Content Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:34 AM PDT "We all live lives of private fictions; Narratives of perspective," he remembered his teacher saying one afternoon in class. Maybe, he thought, people are so quiet and desperate because they're scared their stories  won't be published; that some tiny gremlin of reality will screw it up for them and they'll have to realized how pathetic their lives are. He looked up at the blackbirds whistling in the trees surrounding the long rows of picnic benches. He liked his job. Where else could you get paid to hang-out on park benches and play games with kids all day. One bird hopped into the ash strewn grill next to his bench, cocking its head to the side to study him. It flew back to the tree tops, like an anthropologist, rushing to share its find with the rest of the parliament. You tell them how pathetic we are, little bird, he thought. He was listening to John Fogerty on his Ipod dock, watching the kids on the swings. He was making sure they didn't break their necks doing triple axle dismounts onto the coarse tanbark of the playground. That was his job, saving them from themselves. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent.

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