Thursday, March 05, 2015
The Celebrity
Mr Disease
When Dr Cantry asked him to represent
the disease, it sounded funny.
Actually, of course, she meant efforts
to fight same.
So he became the public face for the latter.
First on TV, where Jenny made him up meticulously.
“These new cameras pick up a flyspeck at fifty miles!”
Soon, people waved on the street.
The mayor phoned with a request to join the
Youth Sports Week Parade. The army truck
holding girl softball players became his choice
since they had more hell in them, thus least
reverential to him and his disease. Called him Dad.
The most comic deference happened at Acropolis
Lunch where Markos insisted he sit in a booth now.
Still orchestrated the usual 40's era food jokes though.
Thus pretending he didn't have a lit degree, announced:
"We have two kinds apple pie today, Apple and Pin-Apple!"
It became his turn--and he didn't do one of his fadeouts,
though he had to yell from the booth. “You call this Chicken
Soup? The chicken walked through it on stilts!"
Waiter Jellybean, started dressing as a gangster, and our
Mr Disease enjoyed hassling him.
You'd almost expect Sam Spade to pop in to ask some
pointed questions!
And one blunt one.
Labels: death, disease, food, Greek, Sam Spade, TV
