Black Friday Lament

Coppers and shoppers take over the mall
intent on buying, and buying it all.
They come as black masses ready to kill,
to spend all their earnings to get those “great deals”.

Billions, and billions, and billions they’ll spend
on presents for Christmas — will it never end? …

Before Covid there was a time when my uncle and I sold small furry pets at a local flea market Often I would take a rabbit or guinea pig for a “walk” while at the market each weekend as a way to drive more business to our location where we…

My Daddy was notorious for shaking packages to see if he could figure out what was in them. And if he saw a package with his name on it he would sneak around and open it early.

So one year Momma decided there would only be numbers on packages and…

I once got a whipping for saying, “Good bread, good meat, good God, let’s eat,” when it was time to bless the table. Had my mother known my uncle taught it to me she might have whipped him too.

I think of that every time the family gathers for a…

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Who could argue with logic like that? It was times like that when Veggie’s true genus shined through. He might not have been a great vegetable but he was still a vegetable, sorta’. …

Previously, It Is What It Is.

“Have you seen Jr?” Mable asked, “I been lookin’ for him all mornin’.”

“I told him his big Uncle Joe Big is comin’ to visit,” Earnest answered, “an’ he needed to go to town and find some double-wide toilet paper.”

“But there ain’t no…

A Dirty Job Someone Must Do

The spatula cried, “I’m seeing spots.
Not just a few, I see a lot.”
The fork, she laughed, “Go take a bath,
and do the math. Your homework's due,
and you do half.”

The knife chimed in, “It’s back again.
The spots are back, my chrome they’ll crack. …