DICEY BROWN MAGAZINE
January 25, 2008
I WANT TO TELL THE DUCKS FUCK YOU FOR NOT EATING THE QUICHE
Dean Roughton
I want to tell the ducks, Fuck you, for not eating
the quiche. I want to put too much Chinese mustard on my egg
roll because I prefer wasabi and I am pissed off that
there is no Japanese restaurant in town, decent or otherwise. I
want someone to actually taste the bad milk, roll it around on
their tongue, chew it up, gulp it, and ask for seconds. I want
to make macaroni and cheese with too little water and an extra
packet of powered cheese and eat it from an oversized glass
mixing bowl while watching reruns of Gilligan's Island because I
never saw Mrs. Thurston Howell the third eat quiche, with or
without wasabi, that prudish bitch.
I want to ride in a hot air balloon, over a funeral with a
fantastic number of mourners, so I can yell down: Popcorn!
Peanuts! Hotdogs! I want the fat guy in the third row to stand
up and wave a twenty at me. If he did, I would jump out and give
him two jumbos with chili, onions, and mustard. Then I would
say, You're money is no good here, sir as if I were a
magnanimous bar patron and he were a New York firefighter.
I want to walk into the middle of an Atkins diet seminar
wearing a three piece suit made of bagels, rice pilaf, and
raspberry-filled Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I want the fat
guy from the funeral to be there, eating his hotdogs and
flipping the bird to the group facilitator. For dessert, he
could eat the raspberry filled Krispy Kremes in a lewd
and lascivious manner. Right in front of me, he could morph into
the Wife of Bath, gap toothed and all. I would say, Holy Shit!
and then add Batman for good measure.
I want to take a cab from North Carolina to Philly and get a
goddamn authentic cheese steak. I want it to be full of
mushrooms and onions. I want my girlfriend to have an orgasm
when I say the word mushroom. I want the fat guy from the
funeral and the facilitator from the Atkins seminar to both give
me a high five because I made my girlfriend have an orgasm
simply by saying the word, Mushroom. The fat guy should also do
a highly choreographed end zone victory dance while wearing a
giant cheese wedge on his head. Hell, he owes me that much by
now.
I want to not be embarrassed when my girlfriend makes
comments about fat people in public because I am secretly
envious that she has no disconnect switch that filters what she
thinks and what she says. I want to be able to make rude
comments in a guilt-free fashion about fat people in public
because, damn, cant they look in the mirror and tell they're
fat? And aren't they deserving of ridicule? And don't I look
good in these pants?
And since most quiche is made with chicken eggs, I think those
goddamn ducks should not be so fucking sanctimonious.