The Baby Bird is Innocent

I have a torn up brain right now. Sometimes she's right. Sometimes she's crazy. Dad took her to see the shrink. Mom says the guy's an ass, what does he know?, he doesn't understand anything, she is never going back there.

The Scott kid down the street, him and his dad found a baby bird. They are helping it. Me and Jorge were looking at it. Mom found out.

Don't you DARE go near that thing! That thing could have ALL KINDS OF DISEASES! Birds have DIS-EASE! That kid's dad is an ass. What an ass he is. Don't you two DARE go down there anymore, you hear her?!

Dad's an ass for ever CONSIDERING that man to be a doctor. What was Dad thinking? Seriously. She means seriously.

Dad says he's innocent. He says he's innocent, man. Mom still keeps on going. Dad says he's innocence drifting. He's just innocence drifting, man.

Mom says what did he just say?

Dad says, What?

Burt, what did you just say?

He just looks around.

Innocence DRIFTING?? Only an ASS would say that, you know that?

Dad's eyes just sit there. My eyes just sit there. Jorge's eyes, too.

Then she does the snort laugh, then again. And again and again. It means it's okay. Now she keeps on going, now she keeps on saying it. Dad goes and stands and smiles with her because he likes it, we all do, we like it when she's like this. You gotta soak it up, before it goes away.

Way to go, Dad. Now's a good time.

We ask if we can go see the bird.

Uh-uh. No way! Not a chance, you guys! Don't you guys get it? They're gonna get SICK down there, touching that thing! Let THEM get sick. Not you guys.

Dad goes out the door.

We promise we'll wash our hands. We won't even touch it. We won't even look at it.

No way. Uh-uh.

The baby bird is innocent. He didn't DO anything!

You don have to do anything to get a disease. Don't you guys KNOW that??

We say what disease??

Oh, come on. Come on, you two, let's go eat. What've you guys had for lunch? Are you guys hungry?

Now I'm all torn of a different thing. Does she even care about lunch, is it about us kids, or is it just about the bird still? Is she just trying to trick us?

Even then, we were hungry, we just go have lunch now. Hurry, while she's nice still.