Thursday, May 11, 2006

No Girls Allowed !!!

Long ago and far away, on the back of an old clapboard garage, in our little families little garden, was a sign ....perhaps the first sign I ever read by myself....NO GIRLS ALOWED.....It was posted by my brother, to teach me the ways of the world....

He was helpful, my brother....he also taught me never to be smarter or faster than he one summers morn on the railway tracks, in front of my grandmothers cottage.....I'm still long legged... and my grown-up teeth eventually did appear.....but the lesson was well learned regardless of times ability to heal superficial scrapes....The funniest thing about that summers morn happened decades later when his wife accused me of causing trauma to that poor little blighter of long ago.....for, just like the merchant of venice, I bled....