Gary

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At night he jumps from his window to a branch and has a party with bats, squirrels, and crickets.

For breakfast he heats twigs and leafmeal moistened with aphid milk.

His parents buy TV sets but he always paints pictures on the screens.

He can make his mind go at different speeds: very fast, very slow, normal. Very fast is his favorite.

One day when he woke up he was fifty feet above the earth. His mother was holding a piece of string, tied to his ankle, like in Fellini's 8 1/2, but Gary thought it was funny.

Gary thinks he has nine brothers, six sisters, seven dogs, four cats, three rats, and three crickets. Really he has four crickets, not three.

Sometimes he sleeps, and when he does his mother does a dance, and sings,

Gary is my joy

he is my darling boy

I'm glad he's not a toy

but sometimes I think he might be a koi

and someone enchanted it to seem like a boy.

Gary loves the song. He only pretends to be asleep. But then he really is asleep.