Identity: Frog and Baby Pierre

Baby Pierre set off immediately. After all, he had nothing to pack. He scanned the window sill looking for an easy way down. At the end of the sill he saw a small green tomato, sitting on its own. He approached it boldly.

Hello! he said. I'm Baby Pierre. Who are you?

I don't know, said the small green tomato. Who do I look like?

You look like a tomato, except you're not red. You're green and marbled, like a frog.

Green, am I? said the small green tomato. Are you saying that I should be red?

No Frog, I'm not saying that, said Baby Pierre. But one day you're bound to turn red.

How do you know? asked Frog.

Everything turns red in the end, said Baby Pierre. That's my theory. My daddy is already red. He wants me to wear a red hat. But I'm not ready to wear it. You and me, Frog, we are the same. Not ready to be red.

Frog looked doubtful.

Come with me, said Baby Pierre. I'm off to explore the wide world.

Alright said Frog, impulsively. Where shall we go first?

To the bus stop, said Baby Pierre. I believe it is over the road.

Breaking Away

Baby Pierre was back in the corner of the window sill with Mummy Pierre and the Manifest Stone. It wasn't long before he became bored.

Mummy, he began, do you think Ageless will ever find Auntie Kobo?

No dear, said his mummy. And I don't think he really wants to. Or that she wants to be found. He is a living creature and she is a fossilised clam. What could they do together?

Yuk! said Baby Pierre. I never thought about that.

Wait till you grow up said Mummy Pierre. Then you will understand. Meanwhile I think you would do well to keep still and contemplate the Manifest Stone.

No, said Baby Pierre. I am off.

What! cried his Mummy. Off where?

I am off to explore the wide world, said Baby Pierre. I want to learn what is on the other side of the window. I want to see the Red Star. I want to go to a Library. I want to find my daddy and see the red knitted hat.

I thought you were afraid of your daddy and the red knitted hat, said Mummy Pierre.

That is why I have to go, said Baby Pierre. I will not fear my daddy and I won't wear the hat. I want to tell him so.

Well, go if you must, said Mummy Pierre, with a sigh. But first say a prayer to the Manifest Stone.

No, I won't, said Baby Pierre. I am an atheist and a free thinker. I don't believe in the Manifest Stone.

Mummy Pierre glanced fearfully at the Manifest Stone.

The Manifest Stone smiled beatifically through its many orifices.

No One to Look Out

dear ageless, perhaps you do not realise how mmmenacing you sound. baby pierre is frightened of you now. yes i told himmm the story of the red knitted hat. oh!! he said i would not like that hat. and what does mmy daddy mmean OR ELSE????? i am going back to mmmummmy right away.

and off he toddled to the corner of the window sill where his mmummmy lurks, next to the mmmanifest stone.

it was all your fault ageless. i had no one to look out of the window for the red star. i thought i would try asking his mmummmy.

but you know i do not like her she is too religious. she said oh!! the mmmanifest stone says it is forbidden to look out of the window, or sommme such thing. and i said, but pierre darling, you have three wonderfully bulging eyes why not use them? the mmmanifest stone would not even know that you were looking. and she said, i can't kobo, i do not dare, the mmanifest stone knows everything.

so you did not need to ask mme if i want to know what happens next. you did not know yourself. but now you do.

what should we do now ageless???

we have no one to look out for us.

kobo clammm

The Red Star

oh sorry kobo sorry,,,,, i got excited,,,,,you are right the story was about me,,,,,i wanted to steal baby pierre away,,,,,,and whack him!!!! but i don't any more,,,do you believe me kobo????

dear baby pierre,,,,oh i was sad when you said he had fallen out of the window,,,,,clik clik,,,,he's smashed his little head open,,, i thought,,,oh no,,, now i can't smash his little head open ,,,,ha ha kobo,,,only joking,,,

clever baby pierre,,,,yes kobo,,,,, ask him to look out for a constellation when he looks out of the window,,,,in the night time,,,,,,,,,poke him if he falls asleep,,, poke him HARD,,,,,the lazy little slacker ,,,, clever little baby,,,,,hmmm,

tell him to look for a red star,,,,, it's the only one i know,,,,it's called betelgeuse by humans,,,,,but we call it the lobster's armpit,,,, it is the brightest star in the constellation humans call orion,,,,,but we lobsters call it the giant lobster,,,,,,,baby pierre, if he can see it ,,,, then i know where to find you kobo,,, i know,,,,,and i will come,,,,,

then what,,,,kobo,,,,??,,,will you give me a kiss??? ,,,,will you??? ,,,let me tell you a story,,,,in the story i find you and baby pierre,,,,,,,,baby pierre thinks i am his daddy and i give him a red knitted hat,,,,,,it is to hide the mark of the lobster claw on his pretty little head,,,, he doesn't want to wear it,,,,, he says daddy daddy it's too big!!!,,, i do not whack him,,,,no,,,i smile and say,,,,you put it on or else,,,,,,

do you want to know what happens next kobo????

ageless will tell you when he sees you xxx

Baby Pierre and the Window

do i want to know what happened ageless, do i ??? !!! NO! let mme tell YOU what happened. the lobster daddy camme looking for his little baby. the little baby with the lobster mmarkings on his pretty head. alas!!!!! the little baby was no longer on the window sill. his daddy had told him he should look out of the window. the little baby was too smmall to see out of the window. he had climbed up on his auntie to try and look out of the window, and oh, with a terrible crash he had fallen out of the window!!! so he never got to live in the hole in the sea with his daddy, and learn not to be cleverer than himm. as for the girl in the bell jar ageless , do you want to know what happened??? did she die, you asked mme? did she DIE? she did not die ageless. she climmbed down into the cellar and found a hole. she went into the hole and piled somme stones at the entrance . then she took somme pills. she wanted to die but she didn't die. her mmummmy found her. so it wasn't sad because she didn't die, she got better. and yet it was. do you want to know why ageless ? i will tell you. because sylvia plath who wrote the story killed herself. but later, a long timme after she had written the bell jar. the stories people tell are really about themmselves. they pretend they are about another lobster but they are not. anyway enough of that. baby pierre has not really fallen out of the window. but all he sees when he looks out is the sky, because of the angle he is looking. he wants me to ask you if a constellation sighting would be useful. i told you he was clever ageless, not like you. yours sommmewhat coldly, kobo clammmm

The Lobster Claw

clikclik,,,,,ah,,,,clikclik,,,,ahhh,,,,dear kobo,,,,you should not tease,,,

is it really true???,,,,,baby pierre is marked by the LOBSTER CLAW????,,, then truly i am meant to be his daddy,,,,,how wondrous,,,,,what a pity he is such a little smarty,,,,,,but ageless will fix that,,,,,,,clikclik,,,,whack!!,,,,ageless knows how to be a daddy,,,,

i am at the library kobo,,,,,, i need more information,,,,,,, all the gardens look the same,,,,, they all have taps and sheds and clotheslines ,,,,,,,,,baby pierre the clever little baby ,,,,,,,tell him to look out of the window,,,,,,

i liked your story of the sad girl kobo i like sad stories how does it get sadder ,,,,,, does she DIE?????

i have a story for you kobo see how you like it,,,,,there was a lobster he was looking for his love,,,,,she was a fossilised clam,,,,, he had loved her for a long long time,,,,,,,when he found her she had a little baby,,,,, a beautiful baby very clever and smart,,,,, with the marking of a lobster claw upon its pretty head,,,,,the lobster could not help himself,,,, he stole the little baby from his lover,,,,,,yes he took the little baby,,,, and kept it in a hole under the sea and taught it not to be so clever,,,

do you like that kobo??? do you want to know what happened next????

kiss kiss,,,,,, just ask your friend

ageless lobster

The Bell Jar

dear ageless, don't be creepy, mmmm i know what mmmm means and i do not like it you are not mmy boyfriend just mmy friend i know i said you were mmmy boyfriend but that was before you got all creepy ageless cut it out.

i was sad to hear you thought of jumping in the water because i was dead.

no really i was glad.

do you really think mmmy stories beautiful ? here's a sad one for you ageless . i read a book about a girl it was called the bell jar. the girl was clever but she was unhappy. she sat on the roof of a tall building in new york and threw her clothes out over the sleeping city one by one. all she had left then was a black evening dress which she was wearing on the roof. the next day she had to go back to the country. she borrowed a green skirt from a friend and had to wear it all the summmer long. immagine that ageless. it was funny but it was sad and it gets sadder do you like sad stories ageless?

ageless have you looked at any mmmmaps? the satellite mmaps? baby pierre says you should go into a library. i did not tell himmm that you called himm a smmarty pants and a clever clogs, his mmummmy pierre used to call him that. it is why he hates his mmummmy.

don't be jealous he is beautiful. his mmummmy looks like a mmouse with bulbous eyes but he looks like a precious angel. and guess what? you will like this ageless!! he has a special mmmarking on his head, the mmmark of lobster claws. you see you mmmust be mmmeant to be his daddy.

hurry up and get to a library ageless hurry. i hope you are not wasting timmmme mmmoooning by the water.

kissy kiss mmmy boyfriend NO not mmy boyfriend, but mmmaybe

yours

kobo clammm