I Had Been on the Academy’s Beatnik Team
please sing that- signal when you want me to stop
- I just don’t feel like giving hugs
- lasted for two weeks
- a snow-covered archipelago
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I had been on the Academy’s Beatnik Team, but it had been years since I’d tapped the skins. To stall I said, “Please sing that request, Captain.”
He slid his sunglasses down his nose and glared at me until I got myself seated comfortably crosslegged with the bongos nestled between my knees. My fingertips tingled in anticipation. “Wave to signal when you want me to stop,” I said, and began. The rhythms came back to me immediately. It was way-out, Daddy-O. You dig?
The captain waved his hand in my face and I finished with a flourish. “You can ride with me,” the captain said, standing. “I just don’t feel like giving hugs or kisses or anything like that.” He went to the railing and untied the boat from the pier.
We left the harbor of the piratical island with no difficulties at all, which was a welcome surprise. Our journey lasted for two weeks, and I never learned the name of either the yacht or her captain. But I did play a lot of bongos.
At the end of our two-week sail we spotted a snow-covered archipelago, unfamiliar to me and to Tessa.
“This is where you get off,” the anonymous captain declared.
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