DUFFEL BLOG PRESENTS: Maurice Sendak gives your weekend safety brief
The night Max wore his unicorn suit and made mischief of one kind
and another
his first sergeant called him "Dirt bag!"
And Max said "BLOW ME!"
So he accepted NJP without consulting a lawyer.
That very night in Max's room a wilderness grew and grew
and grew until his ceiling hung with black mold and the walls became the world all around
and an ocean tumbled from the crappy air conditioning that base maintenance was never going to repair
so Max set sail through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year
to where the Shit Birds are.
And when he came to the place where the Shit Birds are
they roared their false motivation
and gnashed their teeth that were terrible because they always missed dental appointments
and rolled their belligerent eyes
and gave bullshit excuses about how they got screwed by recruiters
‘till Max said "BE STILL!"
He tamed them with a magic trick
of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once
and talking a lot of trash about how he would have kicked the…
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