Buttery high voice
as much ‘Valley’ as Nawr’Leans:
blame film and TeeVee!
reading old notebooks
for a friend’s phone and address;
watch TeeVee, write this!
I forgot: eating peanuts
swimming in a six-ounce coke!
boiled green goobers:
salt, onion, garlic, peppers –
the white stuff* is best!
*(green peanuts, only partially formed in shell have a white, creamy {for want of a better word} placenta surrounding the nascent nut-meat which takes on all the flavorings in which it is boiled, yet retains that unnamable something that says to so many sons and daughters of the south and those few Yankees innoculated by the crewe as Goober Peas. One should try either redskin Virginia peanuts, of the naked roasted and salted versions in a six-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola for another true taste of The South you Put In Your Mouth!)
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