Ode to Failure

A sack of flour serves as a newborn baby in the arms of a boy learning to care for something precious.
Sack of Flour

 

 

All juniors carry a sack of flour around for two weeks like it’s a newborn baby boy. Their grades are based on the health of the boy as determined by the final condition of the sack at the end of the normal timescale long since established. Anyone choosing to spread around the contents of his sack as a repudiation of our timescale is put in charge of a new baby boy to be carried for a period of three weeks to a month depending on the attitude of the new father. Spilled flour results in a third sack, carried a month. If not then, it’s over with. We’re done with him. But that’s not true, is it? We’re never done with each other, so take notes everyone on the protection of a fragile being.