Review: Baghead

Baghead wasn't always a baghead.  He was Lloyd or
Donald or Akbar or Seth.  There were a range of possibilities, but no one
is quite sure who exactly he was because it was a long time ago. Years and years have passed since he became Baghead. People can’t quite remember his name, but
they're pretty sure it wasn’t Seth. Anything, but Seth.
Before Baghead was Baghead he had a plastic lunchbox with dinosaurs on the
facing.  It came with a matching thermos.  The thermos had a stegosaurus
on it.  Before Baghead was Baghead, he thought he would have been a stegosaurus
if he had been around in the Jurassic era. He felt his head was similar to the stegasaurus. I think Baghead, before he was Baghead, was
tormented because of his small head.  Once he had a kite and it had been
tossed in a river.  Another time he brought his father's paperweight to
school.  A single penny in glass block.  That got tossed in the lake.
 The town was very aqueous. Then
their came the day when they took his lunchbox, filled it with rocks, and threw
it into the ocean. They stripped Baghead
naked and held them down while they did this. After the lunchbox sunk they burned his clothes and went home to dinners
their mothers had cooked.

Baghead, in the few minutes before he became Baghead, jumped
in the water, but forgot he didn’t know how to swim. He wanted to go home. He wanted his kite back. He wanted his father to run his classmates
over in his car.

Baghead found the bag in the trash by the beach. He poked holes and put it on his head. He thought of revenge, but he was weak and
naked. Instead he walked home. People looked and pointed. Baghead waved. They laughed. He felt a little better. People
at the Chinese restaurant ran to the window to look at him. He waved at them too. They laughed. Baghead walked for a long time. He did not know where he was. He
did not go home. A local news crew
wanted to interview him. He said, “They
stole my kite, my father’s paperweight, and my lunch box. They burned my clothes.” Then he waved. People watching laughed. The kids who did this to him saw him on the
news and said, “Hey, there’s that kid, the one…ah…you know, the baghead.”