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I crept into my bedroom & slowly eased my

  • I crept into my bedroom & slowly eased my sock drawer open. There they all were, nestled together dreaming happy socky dreams. I knelt down, took out my melodica & tootled a

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  • hypnotic melody. A black tube sock began to writhe and dancing. Then a pair of argyles coiled around each other, a frilly knee high rose & they all snaked out of the drawer towards

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  • the snake charmer. Outside, children where playing with a wheelbarrow, taking turns in riding and pushing it. The younger one, Jimmy, heard a hissing sound coming from the window

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  • . Jimmy dropped the wheelbarrow, tumbling his playmates into the dirt. The cobra looked down from the second-story window. "Do you know what day it is, boy?" it hissed.

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  • Jimmy, with all the grit and mettle that a fourth grader could muster, spit a remarkably iridescent loogie into the dust and said, "I ain't getting you no Christmas goose, snake."

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  • There was silence as the loogie spread in the dirt, coming to rest on the leeward side of a small dirt clod. Mesmerized by its iridescence, Jimmy didn't hear the recess bell

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  • ring. He ended up standing in the playground the rest of the day. After school, I checked on him. He seemed to be in a sort of trance. "Jimmy?" I asked,"Still staring at a booger?"

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  • At this, Jimmy blinked, roused by the word "booger" and laughed. "Finally," I said, "Come on Jimmy, let's get to the

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  • Green Mill to see Jimmy Jazz perform "he"s a jelly roll baker now" and "selling my pork chops", among other classic tunes heard nowhere else." Jimmy Jazz was now 102 years

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  • and a day away from becoming a legend. Someday wise, intergalactic beings would recognize Jimmy Jazz's "Baby, You Can Ride My Gnu" as the Answer to Everything. Who knew?

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