So why not go for a turkey? I think I shall and make another Beatles'
reference for the third time. So let the spotlight be on George
Harrison this time. The title alludes to his second album, and song of the same name. Harrison's concept seems to be fitting and all,
since school is ending and whatnot. Okay cool, a whole tale about
freshman year at a community college. Eh, not quite.
Then comes Friday morning. I didn't see the body, but I heard he was
found laying in the ditch. I like to think that it was in the same
way as Edgar Allan Poe; not sure why I found this to be better.
Probably, because it has this mystery to it all. Didn't really
intend it be an ode, but yeah...
For the body was of a cat, but not just a cat. It was my cat,
Wilson. He was the subject of some tweets, and the butt of jokes. He
was also made the subject of a photo, of him being naughty. By the
way, this happened to win over my photography class for some reason?
He was inquisitive to the nth degree, when it came to things such as
a faucets, water, carrying his toy hedgehog, licking eyebrows,
sleeping next to sewing machines, playing with scissors and among
other subjects.
Sure he sucked at being a cat, especially a lap cat. In fact he was
probably more of a dog than a cat. Okay, he purred and slept
everywhere, but he would play fetch and needed someone to let him
out, to relieve himself as well as “kitty things.” He had
suffered from “pinchy-eye syndrome,”and hadn't mastered the
concept of glass (I teased him with shoe laces from the other side).
He had the uncanny ability to just appear. I mean, one could just
look out window and there would be nothing there, and look away. Not
even moments would pass, and one could look back there he would be
standing (either wanting to be let in or at least to observe those in
the room). He mastered the the ability to tap on the glass, so we
would know: “oh, you want to be let in.”
Then it hit me (at 11), he won't be there. Not there, not ever. No
more playing with the balusters. I now must re-learn not to wander
into the back room, looking to see if he's sleeping by the sewing
machine. So niyawh[1]...
And for some strange reason, unknown to me, “I Shall Be Released”
had a ringing echo in my head- well at least the opening line, over
and over that day: “they say ev’rything can be replaced.” I
call bullshit on that. Either it be towards Dylan or “They.” I
continued the day as normal and finished mowing the lawn (elsewhere)
for someone that's in need of their lawn being mowed. I started with
the lane, for the lane goes back into the woods, and ends at a creek.
It's a pretty good stretch.
Anyways, off in the distance there was a shadowy figure, similar
looking to that famous hoax. I had gotten closer and saw that it was
a goose. Okay big whoop? [UW-]Sheboygan usually has geese at the
entrance, whether they're walking near the road or on the road. The
goose I was watching had eventually flown away and regrouped with a
posse of geese of in the nearest field over yonder. I got closer to
the creek where more geese emerged. Some were adults, and there were
little fuzzy ones. Weird to describe something with features as
fuzzy. I guess I didn't like, that I disturbed their own Walden.
That's if geese can have that.
Second time down the road another one walked out of the field. This
one had quite the personality, for the way it waddled down the lane
was like some old queen that once had the time of his life, but now
it's far over. Surprisingly, the goose actually stood his ground for
quite some time before he fled. More or less, I was just taking in
the now, while listening to Mumford & Sons and having an Astral
Weeks moment.
Still, overall the first year wasn't quite the same as NBC's
Community (“six seasons and
a movie”), though I had learned about rhetoric, and I'm pretty sure
that's always a useful tool. Got some pretty sweet pieces of art,
that I actually like, done (not to mention I saw a nude lady, oh
boy). Met some pretty cool people, who really helped shape this first
year, and had many good times at lunch. And I thank them for that.
Though, on the downside, most, if not all, are sophomores and won't
be returning for next year. Going off to bigger and better. I even
met an awesome person in art who likes probably the coolest music out
there and had gotten me back into the White Stripes. He had even
given me some vinyl rips of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs,
only exclusively released on vinyl. There was even a countdown for
the release of Blunderbuss. In return, Junior Kimbrough and a Jack
White bootleg. Then comes the downside that he's a sophomore and
won't be returning next year.
I suppose that's one way to end freshman year.
[1] A word that grandma uses quite a bit. It's basically a
“sentence/idea ending” type word. It could possibly mean: “moving
on” or in some form of agreement. Well at least that's what Rachel
and I have concluded.