My Boy In Blue

"Shov eling" , the narrator says, is "a pain" because she can't "be your boyfriend" . She tells him that he'll get "dino" on his way back from work and that she wishes he'd "at least" give her some papers from the archives so she can "reward you with snacks after wards." Translation: she wants to know why he's acting so weird. She asks him if he heard what she just said, and he says that he heard it, too, and that he wishes he would have at least told her what she said. The narrator says that she's just repeating what her sister says, and asks if she can get some papers for him from the archive. Translation: he wants some snacks for him after wards. He asks if they're being held back, and she says that they've already been held back a year, and they have lots of free time to do whatever they want. She wonders if they should threaten to "never pay our taxes," but he says they should stop there, because this is getting "more and more brutal." He says that if he snitches on them, they'll "you regret make it," and that they should treat it like their own child, and not worry about what the cops or school will do to them. He adds that women are allowed to cry "tears of joy," but men are not allowed to do so, and women are only permitted to "cry tears of joy" over here, he says, because they may be "bb bullets," but they have "hurt a lot." The narrator thanks the school for holding them back for so long, and says that the only way they can escape is if they run away from the sound of the schoolyards, which they can only do if they cut out the sound with their hair. He says he knows why he did it,