A Delicious Split-Pea Soup

Green peas and all kinds of beans are split open to release their seeds, like those peas in a green pod, that mother cooked in a huge pot! One of my dad's friends who wore a veteran's brooch, would shamelessly cheat to get a delicious split-pea soup; mom didn't know he was a cheater, and surely would have hit him with the wooden dough roller when he peaked with a grim! And mom slowly stirred the vegetable soup, she used to say, " The longer it cooks, the better it tastes! ' And my mouth was drooling to taste those soft peas... that I took out of the seeds' casings without miscue! Mother rushed in the kitchen with a roar of an enraged lion, " That idiot is playing no fair game! He is a menace to all! And he passes glasses of brandy to get everybody drunk! " " He wants to win no matter what the cost...oh, clever maven! " The split-pea soup steams like a hot volcano erupting, the cover of the pot blows off, " What a mess on my stove! " mom screams... " It's all his fault that I am in this state! " she continues yelling... " I still hear his big mouth mocking...wait 'till I have finished cooking these peas! " Entered in Nathan's Laccese contest, " Two peas in a pod " Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci