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SUMMERTIME ICARUS Part 2© Selma Montgomery and Jon Blackstock
This article contains scenes four through seven of Summertime Icarus. We have the first three scenes here as well (suite101.com/article.cfm/5002/54393).
James: You can't imagine my pride, as I stood there in the hermitic pitch black blues Charleston morning, hearing Silvester call me a dumb, retarded joker over and over again, flailing his silly arms in frustration that the mas'er mas'er was going to sure be mad about this. The lock was still on the red barn door, but hoof stomps like pile drivers and long, big-nostrilled snorts like the winds of grand hurricanes could be heard through the boards. The mules were loose doing God knows what damage to the barn and to each other inside, and as the trees' shadows stretched up the sidewalk signifying sunrise, Sylvester called me names in the frustration that no human was to blame and no heads were going to roll and it was his job to fix the problem that early in the morning when no one would love him for his efforts. And the only thing he had to help him was this dumb retarded joker who seemed neither meekly eager nor belligerently afraid that thousands of pounds of hairy frenzied flesh would charge the door as soon as the lock was taken off and the large double doors were opened. [James goes to the barn as he would that morning.] Since I was there first, I sat on the sidewalk waiting for sunrise and Silvester in a cool-for-Charleston morning after I locked my bike in the back of the barn. I had walked around front, knowing what I had heard was the stomping freedom of mules in the red barn. I walked around front and imagined that, rather than in chaos and panic, the mules danced and snorted their barbaric yawps in anticipation of the opening of the large red doors when they would escape and run Dionysically wild in Charleston's matronly streets. The dance leader would be James the Mule who, though you may doubt such nobility in such a strange and sterile love child, not only knew how to reach his nose over the stall gate's ledge and open his own stall gate, but also had enough esprit de corps to let all the other mules out. He wouldn't let out the horses. They probably wouldn't have left their
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