B-A-N-A-N-A-S / by Courtney Mehlhaff

It’s been a shitty week, folks, so I’m going to quickly recount for you the only dream I’ve ever had that caused me to wake up laughing as a fully grown adult.

I’m sitting in an elementary school classroom, and the teacher calls on a student next to me. “How do you spell America?”

The student says with utmost confidence, “A-M-A-R-I-K-A.”

“Sorry, that’s incorrect,” says the teacher.

But the student counters with, “Well how do monkeys hear it?”

In the dream, I begin laughing so hard that the teacher turns to me angrily and says, “What’s so funny about that?”

And I say, “Well, she’s got a point.”

Wait for it . . .

“Cuz monkeys hear what they WANNA hear, amiright?”