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If you go to Wanapee

  • If you go to Wanapee

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  • , be shur to have a banjo on your knee. If you go to Wanapee, meet my friend McGhee. (Stomp, 2...3...4... Chorus.) IF YOU GO TO WANAPEE! SET YOUR HOUND DOGS FREE!

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  • Suddenly, I had to pee. Banjo music did that to me. It was embarrassing because when I was a child, my family once

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  • went to a Steve Martin banjo concert & we had front row seats. I embarrassed myself when Steve Martin invited me (just a little kid then, mind you) up on stage to play with him. I

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  • was shaking. I had often lied about my banjo skills. I always found some excuse not to play, but now, side by side with Steve Martin, my lies would be exposed in front of everyone.

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  • I stare at the faces of the crowd, with expressions that convey judgement, as Steve Martin turns to me and whispers, "King Tut.". With banjo in hand, forehead glistening, the

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  • Man in White regales me and the crowd with his story of cruel shoes & Nathan's "special purpose". Unknown to me, outside in the dusty street, an irate Ashkenazi was calling me out.

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  • "Beware of the Easter-island-headed one who find Comedy not to be Pretty!" the Ashkenazi told a group of startled onlookers, "for he is the demon's handmaiden!" I was glad that I

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  • was a trained journalist, with eagle eyes. How could the Ashkenazi afford such an expensive cane on his modest shaman salary and why had he not mentioned it on taking office?

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  • The reason he didn't get elected probably had something to do with his eating in public with an eagle's beak.

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2 Comments

  1. Woab Jan 07 2019 @ 11:15

    Zetawilk! Your finale is a masterpiece of surrealism.

  2. Zetawilk Jan 12 2019 @ 19:09

    It can be very awkward to be eating in public with a bird. Especially when they start feeding their kids.

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