Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Peanuts for Pacaderms
Her mouth is dry and salty, so she has to lick the envelope twice before it stays shut. Crumbs of nut get usurped by the sticky stripe, and are then trapped between the sheets of white. The bulging paper is covered in stamps; pictures of flags, liberty bells, and wildflowers dominate the right hand side of the envelope. That must be several dollars worth. She's not sure how much postage to Asia is. She is worried about the elephants. She learned today that they live in Africa and Asia, and she knows from the movies that they like to eat peanuts. But she just isn't sure that there are peanuts in Africa and Asia. She doesn't know much about Africa and Asia, except that they are far away. She knows that here there are peanuts, but no elephants. So maybe in Africa and Asia, where there are elephants, there aren't any peanuts. She's on a mission to save the elephants, one envelope full of peanuts at a time.
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