afternoon dissections
we sat at the lab table each with our individual birds.

marticella had a heron, ak had a finch.

i had a common loon.

marticella: i feel like a fucking freak sometimes

*as she reaches inside her bird and pulls out a chain

of internal organs*

aq: the other day, a duck splashed all over my face.

i wanted to cry.

me: look at all this sand coming out of this bird.

it makes me want to go to the beach.

marticella: once i dissected some kind of unknown feline.

it just looked like a ball of meat.

i couldn't stop thinking about tacos.

aq: this finch is so pretty! i don't want to cut it up.

aww look how cute it is!

*as he cuddles with the bird and rocks it back and forth*

then marticella found the heron's testicles and cut one open.

"these are like earplugs! the texture and everything."

aq shrieked in terror because a maggot rolled out of his bird.