How Would You Tell the Story of the Boy & the Bird?

Tonight's Episode

I told this story audibly, without writing it. I must be getting better with that, because it only took a light edit of the transcript to make it readable. Are there only so many stories, that are all described differently? How many completely original stories do you think there are? I swear I’ve heard the same stories told a million different ways, and I’m sure I have stories that are derivative.

How do you describe the boy and the bird? There was a boy and he was on his way to school. He said goodbye to his mom. He had his lunch bag and everything, and had his little jacket and all the stuff for school ready to go. He’s on his way to school. And there’s a bird.

And how do you describe this boy leaving for school with his mom on the porch, handing him his lunch bag? How do you describe that? How do you describe the bird that’s perched on the branch that the boy walks past?

The boy walks down the street, and he’s only a few blocks away from school, and he’s going to walk all the way to school. He turns the corner on his street, and down at that other end of the street and there on the fence post is that bird.

How do you describe that bird and the way that bird is looking at that boy with one eye with his head tilted down, How Do You Describe the Story of the Boy the Bird?

How do you describe the way that dog follows the boy on the other side of the fence as he walks past the house, speaking to him? How do you describe The look on the boy’s face when he says to the big, friendly dog, “I’ll see you after school!” How do you describe that?

Then how do you describe as the boy walks past the driveway of the house where the big friendly dog is that there’s that bird perched up on top of the basketball rim that is attached to the garage? How do you describe that’s the third time that the boy has seen that same bird on the way to school?

And then the boy gets to the busy street and there’s the crossing guard, and he’s a friendly crossing guard. He sees him every day. He doesn’t even know his name. He just calls him sir.

As the crossing guard comes across the street he tells the boy to have a good day at school. The boy continues to walk the school, he crosses the street to go to the side of the street where the school is, and as he does he turns left and sees that bird flying and flapping and landing on the stop sign on the corner of the next block. How do you describe that?

How do you describe when the boy walks into school, and he’s just barely on time, he’s maybe just barely in his seat before the bell rings, and he sits down, he’s got his homework out, and he’s ready to start the day, and he looks over at the windowsill and there’s that bird.

How do you describe that situation of the boy scuffling at the last minute to get to the class on time, he finally settles into class. He’s lucky that the teacher isn’t in a hurry because he’s not really noticing that the boy is almost late.

Five minutes later, the kids are sitting there. The boy looks up out the window and there is that bird sitting on the windowsill with his little head cocked back looking at him with one eye. How do you describe that? The boy looks at the bird, and he’s kind of focused on the bird for a minute thinking about this bird, and then the teacher finally comes to the front of the class and starts talking, and the boy completely begins focusing on the teacher.

How do you describe that he has lost focus on the bird and has put his attention on the teacher, and then how do you describe how the bird flies off the windowsill and goes and sits in a tree while the boy listens to the teacher. How do you describe that?

How do you describe that it’s recess and the boy has a great friend that he loves to eat lunch with. They take lunch outside and then they have recess. They sit down and these two boys eat lunch together every single day because they both love bologna sandwiches. They like to sit down eat their bologna sandwiches and talk about how good their bologna sandwiches are. Sometimes they trade half of their sandwich back and forth to experience the way their moms prepare their bologna sandwiches just a little bit different. And how do you describe that the entire time that those boys are sitting on the ledge of the play lot, how do you describe that situation of this bird who is so obsessed with this boy? How do you describe it?

Then it’s near the end of the day, and it’s time to go. The boy looks out the window, and he’s waiting for that bell to ring, and he’s looking out the window, and he’s looking at the clock, and he’s looking at the bell speaker, and he’s looking at the clock, and he looks out the window, and he looks at the clock, and he looks at the speaker that the bell buzzer sound comes out of, and he looks at the clock, and he looks out the window and there’s that bird hovering. How do you describe that? How do you describe that anxiousness at the end of the school day? How Do You Describe the Story of the Boy?

Or, how the boy walks up past the hedge and there’s that bird sitting in the hedge poking his head out waiting for the boy to come past the hedge, how do you describe that? How do you describe that?

How do you describe that it’s such a beautiful day for this boy. All day long the sky was blue. In the morning the sky was blue; at lunch, and the sky is blue after school, and it’s an early kind of spring day. How Do You Describe the Story of the Boy the Bird?

How Do You Describe the Story of the Boy? And how do you describe how that little bird that was following that boy all over school is now sitting on the windowsill of the house looking in that window watching the little boy and his mother care for a little egg? How do you describe that?

How do you describe what that bird knows? How do you describe that?

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