Serious Conversation

So we're having this serious conversation, me in the kitchen talking about copyrights and derivative works and the public domain and The Creative Commons, the boys in the dining room listening to what I'm saying.

Or at least at first they're listening to what I'm saying. But gradually things begin to slide. Somewhere around the time I mention The Creative Commons, my son begins pulling his sweat pants up to his shoulders, having removed his shirt because is was soaking wet from the rain. And his friend begins to laugh at the admittedly ludicrous sight of this pair of yellow pants walking around the dining room with a disembodied head on top.

They both laugh, and the sweat-panted kid falls to the floor and howls while he rolls. He's trying to get his arms out from inside but cannot for the taunting of the other who's poking and prodding at him from the side.

They've long ago lost track of whatever it was we were talking about. And I've long since given up, too.

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