Ode to Senor Grillo
Senor happened upon my place by chance. He was a bit squat in stature with a round dark body with one brown spot right in the center. He also had six long, thin, graceful legs and a chirp that would make angels cry. They would cry mostly from frustration of course since Senor was a night owl and loved to party and talk all night long. The moment the sun hit he could be found fast asleep in a dark corner near his wife and his two remaining kids. You guessed right. Senor is a cricket.
He came to his wife one day and told her that he was moving them out of the Pepsi can they were living in. He had made it to the big times. It wasn’t as awesome as the giant sombrero his brother had moved his family into. That was too much still for Senor. Yet, now his family will no longer be subjected to rolling down the hill when someone kicked their home out of the way. No longer will they be hunted by the furry creatures of the night. No longer will they need to worry about rainy days and hot nights. Senor jumped over to his wife one day and told her to pack up her pretty long legs; they were moving into a two bedroom apartment. He found them a home in the lap of luxury.
Senor made sure to introduce himself to the owners of the apartment from a safe distance, the ceiling. He laughed a bit as the young boy thought of how he was going to get him off the ceiling to crush him. No way, Senor was a smart cricket and knew he was safe from the 11 year old's devious little bug killing mind and the older woman’s fear of his crunchy remains covering her walls. So Senor camped out all day watching them and letting them see he was not afraid. It was a showdown of the old west style and Senor came out the victor. The woman and her son conceded that he could live there and they would not bother him and he would not bother them.
A few weeks passed and Senor was out looking for food for his kids. He loved his new home and lost his fear and became a bit cocky. All of a sudden Senor was a cowboy and at least a foot tall and shoe proof. Senor went into the bathroom on this day and saw a beautiful blue color. He was mesmerized. He jumped around the object and then went to look underneath and settle into the dark, blue hazy color of the object’s shadow. Senor always dreamed of living in a giant sombrero and a nice blue one was his preference. So on this day, Senor snuck in a bit of a snooze far away from his screeching kids who still hadn’t quite learned how to sing properly with their legs yet. As Senor rested he dreamt of dark green fields and crumbs of food falling from the sky as he headed home to his family living in a large three inch wide brim sombrero. Through the dream Senor felt the light shift and that was the last thought for Senor. SQUISH!
Today we say goodbye to Senor Grillo who just wanted a sombrero too big for him that he could live in. His wife and kids moved away and three weeks later Senora Grillo married again and her new cricket husband moved her and her kids into a nice two story Cheerios cereal box at the end of a nice trash bin outside of a grocery store. At night Senor’s two kids look up at the giant white circle in the sky and move their legs in turn to the wind and vibrations of the leaves and sing to their father Senor who has gone to the big Sombrero in the sky.
Goodbye Senor. You will be missed.
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