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Big Joe Occurrences
I am sitting on Big Joe.
It is more comfortable than the basic desk.
I feel the stuffing, shifting, squishing and taking form to the zip zap fabric that consumes it.
I am sitting on Big Joe.
I feel separated from the group.
It is a feeling of almost existing in third person, a perspective I am not supposed to observe from.
I am sitting on Big Joe.
The noise I make feels secluded from the rest.
The rest being the occasional quiet chatter, the pencils tweaking and writing, the clock tick-tocking to its heart’s content.
I am sitting on Big Joe.
I can feel the warmth and comfort linger upon its bumpy circumference.
Like a worm in the pouring rain, I move freely and sense differently.
I am sitting on Big Joe.
My classmates perceive me discreetly now.
No longer am I reacting, twisting, and reorganizing my desk in the front.
I am now the front on Big Joe.
What is Big Joe?
Is it truly a pink casing holding a thousand soft pellets? or is it more?
Is it really just a glorified bean bag? or does it know?
Who am I sitting on Big Joe in such a static state of writing? or is there more happening?
I am sitting Big Joe… I think.
I think that Big Joe and I have many things in common with the certain situation I have constructed.
Big Joe and I are both foreign to this particular occasion right here, right now, at this very spot, at this very moment.
I share many things in common with the objects, nouns, and ideas that float and lie around me, but I feel Big Joe and I have something special.
I am sitting with Big Joe.
Others interact and see me, but I am mostly disassociated with the rest of my classmates, just like Big Joe.
Big Joe probably likes the quiet, but I don’t know.
Maybe I will ask and say, “ what is your favorite amount of decibels vibrating the room on a wednesday?”
I doubt he will answer, but I am sure there's a conclusion.
I am sitting with Big Joe.
Maybe our paradigms are the same.
Big Joe likes it when people sit on them and I like to sit on things.
I am sure through some logic, some explanation, some crazy idea Albert Einstein came up with that me sitting Big Joe and Big Joe liking to be sat on is the same.
I am Big Joe
Big Joe is I
We are Big Joe
I was sitting on Big Joe while writing this. hehehehehehe