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The man trembles and looks confused and it makes me feel guilty for
doing that to him. But Mr. No Brains over there is videotaping the-thing-
that-doesn't-move and it really cheeses me out because I'm the one over here
mopping up pee.
This world is out of whack. I should have Mike's job.
Regina comes to the zoo the next week and she's sitting on the ground
talking to a group of five-year-old kids and telling them about the penguins'
oily feathers. Some aren't listening. Regina asks three kids, who are pressing
their bellies and hands against the wire-mesh fence, to sit down. Afterwards,
she goes into the gift shop, and I follow her in there.
In the center of the shop, a large inflated whale hangs from the ceiling,
and lots of books with drawings and photos, stuffed animals, bags shaped like
fish, giraffes, elephants, bears, and boxes of plastic frogs are displayed. A
volunteer brought in a group of children in their private school uniforms
and they fill up the room with their noise, page through the books, grab toys,
open them, and shove their hands into them. Above the noise, the single
note of a bird call whistles several times. Regina stands at the register by a
cluster of Mylar fish balloons, reading a list of something. I go up to her and
say the obvious, that it's noisy in here. Uh-huh, she says to me and folds her
list in half.
"Nice job on the penguins."
"But they weren't listening," she says.
"Kids are kids. Remember. Be in the moment, like those kids. As
adults, we forget that."
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Gibbons, Beverly (Beverly Ann). Terlingua, thesis, December 1995; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278466/m1/46/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .