THE JOKER

A frantic 911 call , a shrieking bystander , a slumped writhing kid on the sidewalk and the commotion --


" I am the Joker .


I like rocking back and forth , pushing my single engine train to and fro , I hate the smell of mamma's food (but cant say anything ...hey she's my mamma ) , and I love being alone .


But does that make me a freak ???? The other kids call me so , so I stopped walking on the sidewalk outside my home ...I wanted to ask them , but decided not to..god only knows ( If he really is up there somewhere ..mamma says he is !) , what else they may say to me …



My mamma likes that stuff a lot... she hides it from me though .
Its such a beautiful golden shiny liquid … I want to see it someday , may be play with it … I mean Mamma likes it so much it must be good .


But it makes her crazy sometimes … I know its going to happen , when I see the pretty glass bottle empty ... It makes mamma really angry ,she shouts and throws things around , mostly at my father , even when he is not there !!! Can you imagine ?
I don't say anything to her then , for some reason it makes her sob even more , and that scares me ...


By the way , I haven't seen my father, apparently he does not love me ...I wished he did .. I saw it on TV , Father is someone who takes his son to the park , reads him stories , takes him to the church on Sunday's ! May be the kids on the street are right.. I am a "freak" ..I wish I was not... then I would have a father too.. "


This is O , He suffers from Intellectual Disability ( The "less" offensive term for Mental retardation ) ,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Mild Autism . His mother drank and smoked recklessly while she was pregnant AND 16 .


He was just punched in the belly recently, on his way back from special school ,which made him throw up a liter of fresh blood, almost killing him.

He is the Joker but wants to drive a Electric train someday !

( This case and conversation was totally fictional but the enactment of it , is witnessed at large around me)
-Akshat , August 2011