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Lunch With a Good Ol' Boy Cancelled

I should have said yes,
meet you anywhere you want
for lunch, even that greasy spoon
with the lousy chili and corn dogs.
Every five years or so we meet
to recall the bad old days
and you always tell me that’s the way 
they make chili and corn dogs 
at home in the hills of Arkansas
and I always ask about the stills
and you tell me no more stills
since the repeal of Prohibition.
They never saw a salad in that place
I’m certain, but who cares.
I should have said yes,
meet you anywhere you want.
I promise you I'll go there today
and order chili and a corn dog
once I get back from the cemetery.


Donal Mahoney

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Funom Makama

Date: 3/5/2017 9:42:00 AM

You have pointed out the message so clear, poetic, original and with a fantastic imagery expression. Thank you for this lovely share friend. This is definitely a star content.

Donal Mahoney
Date: 3/5/2017 9:53:00 AM

It's a true story. I'm a city boy out of Chicago and my barber of 35 years was a country boy from lower Missouri. We got along too well despite our religions, mine Irish Catholic and his Southern Baptist. He kept telling me I was "saved" but too stupid to know it. I'd tell him I'd save a seat for him in Purgatory, in which like most Protestants he did not believe. It's almost like a Shi'ite and a Hindu being close despite theological differences. He was the real deal. But I could not get him to go with me to feast on Aloo Gobi and Gulab Jamun, Take care and thanks for the comment.

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 3/4/2017 12:59:00 PM

Oh a touching piece, 7 for this sweet offering :)