born Russian raised American/ part 4
fiction
edward w pritchard
Only a few miles from town but really in another World I got involved in the recruiting activities of the local Mennonite's communities Thursday night meet and greet for recently Divorced adults. I had ventured to the outreach program desperate for attention in the hopes of meeting a few young women, the one's in the starched and meticulously ironed yellow dresses and blue bonnets who stand and sit very straight and lower their eyes when they talk to you.
The woman running the Thursday night get together had a strict corporate agenda that she kept to in running the meeting and arriving nearly late I had to decide quickly who to sit next to at the long table and glancing down at the syllabus neatly arranged at each seat how to play the first question in large bold type " Who Am I and how did I arrive to be here tonight? "
A few of the women were absorbed in the syllabus but a couple were listening politely to a man in a navy blue blazer or cardigan style sweater from the K Mart explain about his ex wife and his twenty eight years as a driver on the Frito lay truck.
An old hand at this recovery divorce business I sat down across from the facilitator of the Meeting Miss Johnston and ignoring the syllabus begin to read the copy of Albert Camus' " Lyrical and Critical essays" that I often at such times carried as a prop.
end part 1
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Friday, June 12, 2015
James Booker plays "Good Night Sweetheart"
James Booker plays "Good Night Sweetheart"
fiction
edward w pritchard
When there is nothing more to say it's time to listen to James Booker the New Orleans piano man play "Goodnight Sweetheart".
I could write a thousand words on how everything is flux and nothing stays the same or listen to James Booker's " Good Night Sweetheart". It's very poignant to hear. Matter of fact I just understood how someone felt when they made up the word poignant so long ago.
fiction
edward w pritchard
When there is nothing more to say it's time to listen to James Booker the New Orleans piano man play "Goodnight Sweetheart".
I could write a thousand words on how everything is flux and nothing stays the same or listen to James Booker's " Good Night Sweetheart". It's very poignant to hear. Matter of fact I just understood how someone felt when they made up the word poignant so long ago.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
poverty my mistress of my misfortune/ part whatever
poverty my mistress of my fortune/ part whatever
fiction
edward w pritchard
Fat old sweaty poverty came knocking at the door again early this morning. The biker gang she has been staying with over on old Kenmore blvd must have kicked Poverty out again for stealing hash and thunder-bird wine.
As soon as Poverty showed up my trac phone disappeared or went hiding. Maybe my phone got tossed out with the trash last night in preparation for the 6am junk truck's weekly visit. The trash guys always manage to bang around the plastic cans and wake me from my nightly dreams of fame and fortune.
More serious than a missing cell phone, no one calls me anyway, the car needs an oil pan replacement. It's a cheap repair, less than 75 bucks, I will have to save up for that but meanwhile it's 14 dollars a trip to drive the car anywhere for the four quarts of on sale discount 10W- 40 oil at the auto zone.
Maybe in a week or two I can save enough for the oil pan repair meanwhile the trips up to the casino are breaking me at fourteen dollars for oil each way and my mistress poverty who always has to tag along to the casino always wants the more expensive late afternoon buffet and worse she only makes maximum bet on the slot machines so she can lose faster but have a better chance for a monster jackpot.
Poverty loves the uniformed security guards at the casino especially the half Latino, half black ones and she tips them real well. Poverty won't let me tip the pretty waitresses though, she says they get a steady wage so those waitresses can just live on that.
Poverty has been doing a lot of bitching this week about the cheap cable that I have here at the house that I stay at. There's no HBO or showtime and she needs to watch a lot of pay for view porno and stuff like that and I have no credit standing at all with the cable companies because of my low credit score. In fact if I don't upgrade my cable soon mistress Poverty has threatened to move out to the West side and stay there.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if Poverty moved in with Lebron James out there on the West side, that is if Lebron lost the big basketball championship going on now by actually breaking a bone in his ankle and not keeping on playing despite the pain and having to give all the money he ever made back and sink again into the Poverty he was born to.
Even though I hate having Poverty around my house I wouldn't want her to leave to plague Lebron James. It's hard to endure poverty even for a while once you have by circumstance risen above it and ole Lebron doesn't deserve that.
Let Lebron James keep his fame and fortune, Lebron is an inspiration to the rest of us; it does us who are in Poverty now know that if a bunch of rich guys will pay over $3,000 dollars a game for a seat near the bench where Lebron sits when not risking life and limb on the basketball court at the playoff games there is hope for us at the bottom of society.
So Lebron if Poverty comes calling out at your big house on the far west side of Akron don't let her in even for a minute. Poverty can be very hard to get rid of especially if you have known her before.
fiction
edward w pritchard
Fat old sweaty poverty came knocking at the door again early this morning. The biker gang she has been staying with over on old Kenmore blvd must have kicked Poverty out again for stealing hash and thunder-bird wine.
As soon as Poverty showed up my trac phone disappeared or went hiding. Maybe my phone got tossed out with the trash last night in preparation for the 6am junk truck's weekly visit. The trash guys always manage to bang around the plastic cans and wake me from my nightly dreams of fame and fortune.
More serious than a missing cell phone, no one calls me anyway, the car needs an oil pan replacement. It's a cheap repair, less than 75 bucks, I will have to save up for that but meanwhile it's 14 dollars a trip to drive the car anywhere for the four quarts of on sale discount 10W- 40 oil at the auto zone.
Maybe in a week or two I can save enough for the oil pan repair meanwhile the trips up to the casino are breaking me at fourteen dollars for oil each way and my mistress poverty who always has to tag along to the casino always wants the more expensive late afternoon buffet and worse she only makes maximum bet on the slot machines so she can lose faster but have a better chance for a monster jackpot.
Poverty loves the uniformed security guards at the casino especially the half Latino, half black ones and she tips them real well. Poverty won't let me tip the pretty waitresses though, she says they get a steady wage so those waitresses can just live on that.
Poverty has been doing a lot of bitching this week about the cheap cable that I have here at the house that I stay at. There's no HBO or showtime and she needs to watch a lot of pay for view porno and stuff like that and I have no credit standing at all with the cable companies because of my low credit score. In fact if I don't upgrade my cable soon mistress Poverty has threatened to move out to the West side and stay there.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if Poverty moved in with Lebron James out there on the West side, that is if Lebron lost the big basketball championship going on now by actually breaking a bone in his ankle and not keeping on playing despite the pain and having to give all the money he ever made back and sink again into the Poverty he was born to.
Even though I hate having Poverty around my house I wouldn't want her to leave to plague Lebron James. It's hard to endure poverty even for a while once you have by circumstance risen above it and ole Lebron doesn't deserve that.
Let Lebron James keep his fame and fortune, Lebron is an inspiration to the rest of us; it does us who are in Poverty now know that if a bunch of rich guys will pay over $3,000 dollars a game for a seat near the bench where Lebron sits when not risking life and limb on the basketball court at the playoff games there is hope for us at the bottom of society.
So Lebron if Poverty comes calling out at your big house on the far west side of Akron don't let her in even for a minute. Poverty can be very hard to get rid of especially if you have known her before.
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