Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Iowa Holiday Inn Circuit
“Our favorite second baseman is hitting .176.”
“Comes to us all! Sayonara-time.”
“Yeah. for him! But when I mentioned it to
Glasson, he seemed to equate me with the
weak player!”
“Well, he’s a little sonofabitch, and certifiable!
You and Chubby, and Earnestine built the
company! And without you alone, be bankrupt
by now!
Glasson comes in high on the hog! Pretty easy
then! AND to have his mouth now!”
“Really!"
“And another thing: without YOU...!”
Maybe his Delly too loud with this last, because
Improvs of Corn thread between the restaurant‘s
tables. Banjo, violin, bongos, castanets!
And singing
Without you
ooo-ooo
ooo-ooo
and
With with with
out out out
you you you
-- other riffs on Delly's words nearly as bright.
Even in his hurt, Mark applauds; she, as
always, blushes.
Labels: business, Holiday Inn, hurt feelings, improvisation, Iowa, motel, riff, tradition
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Giving Iowa a Try
Told it’d take time,
eventually found
a friend and
married her.
Kids came round
as they will. The church
portraits quite Rockwellian
throughout the lean years.
Started the first franchise
ever in his county. Then,
held on. The quiet scorn
of farmers rivals sophisticates
in rancor, but they dribble in now.
So, he has become a success.
For the summer air is beautiful
at a picnic for suppliers and
customers. Iowa remains,
however puzzling.
Told it’d take time,
eventually found
a friend and
married her.
Kids came round
as they will. The church
portraits quite Rockwellian
throughout the lean years.
Started the first franchise
ever in his county. Then,
held on. The quiet scorn
of farmers rivals sophisticates
in rancor, but they dribble in now.
So, he has become a success.
For the summer air is beautiful
at a picnic for suppliers and
customers. Iowa remains,
however puzzling.
Labels: farners, franchise, Iowa
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Giving Iowa a Try
Because Baritone
lost wife Adeline
to the president
of the Stamp Club,
the rest of the quartet
said scrub the hymn
to her sweetness--her
fair face beaming
elsewhere. But he
soldiered on with
it and them.
(‘cross town, Stamp
Club's spouse had
arranged her face in
stone, hardly singing. )
When Baritone left in
tears, Tenor noodled
in Everest falsetto
And thus in daily strife
mustn’t trust
philandering philatelists
of any stripe!
Other two harmonizing.
When he took off on
All women of stone
need never-ending bone,
they booed the feeble wit. Trio
flew then to Reilly's Sump Pump,
a kind of club where self-
respect is suspect and
motives quickly surface.
Because Baritone
lost wife Adeline
to the president
of the Stamp Club,
the rest of the quartet
said scrub the hymn
to her sweetness--her
fair face beaming
elsewhere. But he
soldiered on with
it and them.
(‘cross town, Stamp
Club's spouse had
arranged her face in
stone, hardly singing. )
When Baritone left in
tears, Tenor noodled
in Everest falsetto
And thus in daily strife
mustn’t trust
philandering philatelists
of any stripe!
Other two harmonizing.
When he took off on
All women of stone
need never-ending bone,
they booed the feeble wit. Trio
flew then to Reilly's Sump Pump,
a kind of club where self-
respect is suspect and
motives quickly surface.
Labels: infidelity, Iowa, quartet, singing
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
When the circus came to Iowa
the truly sly performers
got roundly boxed
in the corn, which
waves when you
fly over, but exudes
a toxic dust on the ground.
Labels: Circus, Iowa, politics
Monday, December 26, 2011
