#pastebinmonday - 01/26/2015 - bowling #cosmodream

im standing at the top of lane 29. my fingers barely fit into the narrow holes of my 9lb cantaloupe. i think about how to get this 8-10 split; probably arc left and try to knock 8 into 10 safely. or maybe just hit 10 hard enough to recoil off the back and into 8.

the foggy scent of polished pine and oily onion rings wisks through my nose. left step, right step, left step, toss! the cantaloupe slides off my fingers and into the air. forward, forward forward, and with a loud thud it makes contact with the alley. the fruit fails to roll smoothy and instead skids a foot or two. my fruit comes to rest in the gutter half the way to pin 10.

devestated i turn around to see no one is even paying attention. my fruit failed to impressed any passerbys.

i walk past the obnoxious claw games to get a new fruit. the 16lb watermelons have impossibly large fingerholes. the grapes. Grapes? how can you bowl grapes.

finally, i see the oversized red peppers. these look about right, but i don't know how to throw them. she comes up next to me and says, let me show you how its done.

the multicolored-hair woman takes the red pepper and forces all five of her fingers into its side. she walks down to lane 18, looks back and simply says "watch this." With a heave the red pepper soars through the air. the bottom takes a hard bounce on the alley, but it continues to soar after bouncing. it takes an odd bounce and goes into lane 19, 20, 21... 28... 29!!! and finally smashes into my 8 pin, followed by red shrapnel peircing the 10. only white splinters remain.

my jaw on the floor, she begins to lick her own fingers.