A Girl Named Amanda By K.S. Lewis (April 19, 2009)
Once upon a time there was a girl named Amanda that lived in Chicago Illinois. She grew up in a small town in Ohio and she missed it sometimes. She used to play in the little creeks around her farm and she was always getting muddy. There was something about dirt and water and corn plants that were ever so tall. So sometimes she thought she would go back to the farm and play in the mud again but she was always getting too busy to go back and so she was sad. She said to her friend over the Internet: I bet it is spring And the trees are about to bud The ice is melting into mud That was my time to sing.
Her friend said, "It’s not so far away, the city from the farm. Why don’t you just pick a day?" Amanda sighed, "this city is a million miles away from the country. I would need to get boots for the mud and jeans to replace my dresses. Most of all I would be sad if I just went for a day. It would be like just a single sunray peeking through the clouds on a stormy day that suddenly goes away. " Now it was her friend’s turn to sigh. "You don’t need to plan so much, just drive away one day South from the city. Maybe take a camera and call it an adventure. Don’t tell anyone you’re coming so if you get lost on your adventure you don’t have to show up at all. Who knows where you might end up on such a gala day." Amanda was very responsible. She had work to do, yet she had wind whistling in her brain. So she put on some disguises so she would forget who she was. She looked just like this:
Now she didn’t even know who she was so she pretended that she was a secret agent investigating the country. She rented a car and used a different name: Sunrainy. She even made up a little poem about her name: Some days it rains in the city. Some days the sun comes out. But in the country rainy days are sunny days Sunny days in the country simply daze me. She took her notebook with her and a drawing pad and of course her sunglasses and scarf. When she bought gas to go south she used an English accent which she thought went well with her plaid scarf. She couldn’t do a Scottish accent or Welsh accent but she thought that a Cockney accent would go best with her outfit. She drove South for a long ways and suddenly the city streets turned into grassy pastures cornrows and soybeans. She’d forgotten the smells of greenery and of animals. She curled her nose when she drove past a farm with a lot of hogs. She looked like this:
Anyway she stopped and opened the valve on the green pipe that she gave the nickname the big Green Knight. So the big Green Knight opened onto the field and Amanda was excited that she could go slipping and sliding around the field while no one was watching. But she miscalculated because the water in the big green pipe was really not water it was from the Holstein cows that she had passed by on the road. Soafter she opened the big green valve she went out to slip and slide in the mud. But she was really surprised and very happy because well you’ll see why… And this is how she looked. Because it was really a whole pipeline of whipped cream.
There was a little mud mixed in too and so Amanda got to slide around in whip cream and mud to her heart’s delight. She thought what a perfect day this has been and then she noticed that clouds had gathered over her head and a perfect little rainstorm came while the sun beamed all around even through each raindrop and there were three perfect rainbows one to the east one to the west and one to the south. She thought to herself, "I have so many options in which way to follow the rainbow." So the rain washed off the whip cream and mud and I’m not quite sure which way Amanda drove, but it wasn’t back to the city. And I imagine she found a few cows that wanted to chat.
