bananas

There is a wild pack of kids that runs through our neighborhood, day and night. They are all under the age of 10, and use the profanity like you've never heard. On Sunday I saw three of them striding down the street eating bananas. One kid was wearing a Scream mask. He had to sort of shove his banana under the mask in order to take a bite. It was a bright, sunny afternoon. They paused in front of the Baptist church across the street from my house, and it was the oddest sight you ever saw- these wild banana boys standing in a sunbeam wearing scary masks. So weird.
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