"Deflated Rubber Turkey."
"There is one atop each of the girl's heads.
Clearly they've been playing this game for a while
now, because there is only one girl who's
turkey is still full of air, and that girl
is girl D. The game is called duck, duck, turkey.
Although they go through the motions of having an it
and having that it walk around the outside of a circle
of sitting girls, tapping them on their turkey heads
while saying duck, duck, duck, duck, until they say
turkey while hitting the turkey on the head of a girl
and then running around the circle trying
to sit down in the open spot in the circle
before getting tagged--
all of those little details and actions
are for the benefit of the home audience.
The general stance over here is based on the unshakeable belief
that playing this game is going to lead to a better, more
just society for all, once everybody's turkey is equally
deflated.
And although most of the turkeys are indeed mostly deflated,
none of the girls can keep themselves
from glancing furtively at the head of girl D,
her hair positively radiant in the light bouncing off
of the almost fully inflated rubber turkey on her head.
How can this be?
What is wrong with everybody else's turkey?
Did girl D get a refill or more air than others to begin with?
Is that really a turkey?
Maybe girl D's turkey is not made out of rubber
like the rest.
What if the rubber turkey of girl D was filled with turkey?"