21:32:57 - 2001-01-27
school#5 drunken punches of eastern china
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Drunken punches of eastern
china
__"ar..i still have no feeling yet."kafka scowled.
__"really? my head's a bit dizzy already."
__"i don't know.there's no feeling..."
__"let's go back and get some more."
they started walking down the steps,in the direction of the supermarket . shawn said,"i'm still conscious,damn,i don't think there's such a thing as completely drunk,no conscious,it's all a lie,a lie to get people to drink."
__"yeah-yeah.."
they continued walking,bits of sand stuck to their uniforms . They crossed the overhead bridge and walked through buildings and kafka took out the poem they were given during the graduation ceremony and read it loudly and shawn took it from him and looked at it;the pink slip of paper had gone wet and limp but the words were still visible.it was a poem called "if" by rudyard kipling,about believing in yourself and so on etc.
When they got near the supermarket,they took out their money and counted it.
__"fuck,ten cents short."
they went to other supermarkets in search of cheaper wine.then they saw some of their schoolmates at the macdonalds restaurant and shawn urged kafka to go and borrow ten cents from them.
__"i don't want,i don't want,"kafka cried,"very embarassing,they see me like this."
__"ar! i've got a card!"shawn exclaimed suddenly and they tumbled happily in search of an atm machine.
__When they found one,shawn slotted in his card and pressed a few buttons but suddenly there were only a few dollars left in his savings and he cried,"
ar! there's money! my mum just put in five hundred,where is it?"< > kafka stifled a bitter laugh or cry,"where is the money! fucking bank."< >he punched the screen murderously .__"stop,stop,i'll check again."shawn said and pressed a few buttons again but to no avail,the money was not there.
__they went to the bowling alley in search of friends they could ask ten cents from and seeing none,they slumbered into the plastic chairs near the back.shawn rested his spinning head upon the table and slept while kafka looked around like a madman.he saw a girl in secondary school uniform behind him and he tapped her shoulder and asked for ten cents in the most olivier-porridge way.she gave him ten cents and delighted,he showed it to shawn and they went to the supermarket.kafka sat on a motorcycle in the video arcade and waited while shawm ran in and got the wine.he came out and sat on another motorcycle alongside kafka and they passed the bottle between themselves and finished it in no time. then they walked out of the arcade gigglish and happy as larks;
__kafka screamed bansheely a few times because he sudddenly felt like it,and ran up a pile of sand and fell down and shawn laughed and they walked through the car park,the sky grey with clouds and kafka knocked on the glass windows of the kfc restaurant and they swaggered into the toilet and giggled because they were the only insanely intoxicated ones around and then after peeing,kafka slumped down against the wall and tied his shoe-laces,ignoring the looks of fellow peers relieving themselves in the urinals and admist it all,shawn stood at the mirror and combed his wet hair.a sudden rush and they're out of the restaurant and walking madly swinging their arms hard and kafka with a dash ,ran along the slippery tiled pavement and skated like he was on ice,he turned back and seeing the looks of passer-bys,laughed like an elf,and ran and skidded across the puddles and slipped and fell.shawn laughed and ran forward to pick him up and kafka pushed himself away and hair tumbling wet over his eyes,walked on and then seeing a huge enticing puddle in front of him,he ran and skidded through it and spun madly "ar-ar-ar-" like a helicopter his hands extended till he tumbled onto the muddy grass and laid there,muddied,staring at the leafy branches overhead and waited for shawn to collect him.
