Friday, November 24, 2017
The Van Winkle Cabin
Mom would stand no more!
The crazy uncles given their
Thanksgiving Dinner in the
Van Winkle Cabin.
Actually, it wasn't called
that right away.
But the first year after their
usual screaming quarrel, was.
Mike was the Liberal, Heck,
the Conservative.
Both several notches to the
Left and Right of Vlad Lenin
and Adolf Hitler, respectively.
When everyone in the house
pitched in and cleaned up,
a freak rainstorm almost
drowned out the untiring pair.
Then, graveyard quiet from the cabin.
And Mom sent sane sons, Jeff
and Blake to check for massive
blown fuses.
They reported the combatants
asleep, but, of course, all of
Science knows they continue
in suspended animation.
To awake every Thanksgiving Season.
The Historical Museum had wanted
the cabin before, but Mom had
resisted. Her great great great
grandparents having built it in the
stupendous Land Rush.
But the prospect of moving away the
yearly acid buffoonery of the crazy uncles
forced her, for family peace, to give it to
Dr Abernathy, Curator, in a nice ceremony.
The subsequent move on flatbed truck
disturbed no slumbers.
The physicians of Mercy Regional have
figured a way to revive them each
Thanksgiving Week.
Their unfailing fire boosting Museum giving
by a yearly 28 percent.
Labels: American Left, American Right, Historical Society, Hitler, insane relatives, Lenin, political argument, ruined dinners, Thanksgiving Dinner
Friday, August 23, 2013
Unstable Compound
R-L Standoff
-How went the date?
-Foundered on information not revealed beforehand.
-Oh? She just pardoned for some Lucy Borden-like infelicity?
-Worse! An Insane Righty.
-Well, you're insane Lefty, so?
-Couldn't work out.
-So you agreed you’d just disagree, and thus chatted on about
flotsam and jetsam? Celebrities in Rehab or...?
-Fought!
-How was her performance? I know yours was unstinting!
When it got focused.
-Tiger! And unlike many of her brothers and sisters,
never drooled.
-Makes her all the more dryly dangerous.
-Lethal! But ‘twill be the business of some other sucker.
-So you'll never see hide nor hair of her again!
-Who said THAT ?
-I'll never understand people?
-Vice versa. But we two agreed we didn't cover all the
important issues.
-Two senseless intellectuals!
-I guess. Pride goeth before...fall for one of us.
-You both make a Pride, that’s for sure. Of lions!
Any cub wandering in gets eaten.
-Interesting you say that. Certainly we could individually
devour the softies on either side.
-And then make common cause to...?
-Whatever comes up.
-You both should arrive with explicit warning labels!
-I’ll phone her now. Keen to get fighting again!
Labels: Left, political argument, political relationship, relationship, Right
