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Category: Florida
“My Shoes So Un-Knightly” Tanka 816
I never bought shoes
from “Knight’s” store downtown Sanford:
that make me so bad?
Old next-door JC Penny’s
with its pneumatic tubes – YES!*
- (Before the now-mostly defunct department store J.C. Penny & Co. moved from America’s downtowns in the late 1960s and early 1970s the iconic store was on First Street in a burg of about 6- to 10-thousand. The accounting and payables department was in a loft above the brick buildings only floor shopping area. A clerk would write up the ticket, put the money, check or whatever in the plastic tube and place that tube into a long plastic holder that was hoisted above ground level and pneumatically carried to the loft: the return receipt came back the same way. So charming. I remained fascinated enough watching mom and dad endure the ritual that when I was in junior high and high school before the store moved – first to a shopping strip center and much later to a mall well out-of-town – I would make sure two or three times a year to spend some cash at Penny’s. Sadly, for a Sanford boy bare feet were preferred and yielded Monday through Fridays nine months a year and Sundays – and sometimes Saturdays – on church and special occasions. And then came basketball, track, tennis and The Beach. Tennie-pumps and sneakers and Flip Flops! Flip Flops. All the more reason to bypass Knight’s and hit good ol’e J.C.!)
“Tee-n*-Shorts Today”
The pre-cold bundled:
it’s not even fifty yet –
I get such strange looks!
*(Please, Auto-Correct, I want Tee And (-n-) Shorts not Teen-Shorts. WP could use some more buttons for we Neanderthals and semi-practicing Luddites – or is that Practicing Semi-Luddites, and if so, would a Luddite know a Semi from a cabbage?))
“Dilatory Morn
Dilatory morn
Monday gone gray with moist chill:
would welcome some rain!
“CloudStreaming”
steady cloudstreaming
northeast-to-southwest goes by
like highway traffic
“LSU N-Thems”
LSU-Thems grin:
can a Flo-duh eleven
tackle worth a damn?
“Too Fast For Rain”
clouds too fast for rain
and blue peeks between tatters –
the near-chill welcome!
“Guess Who’s Comin’ Back?”
‘Dry cool week’ comin’ –
fools think Fall finally here!
Summer will be back!
“Rain On The Way?”
Radar sweep shows me
an angry red wolf* stalking
Central Florida!
*(originally typed “world,” vice wolf. Maybe a more vivid choice, but I kinda like “world” as well. “Highlands,” too, did not make the five-count final line, sadly.)
“With Corrine Now Gone” Tanka 230
With Corrine Brown gone
who will John Mica go dupe
for his next new “trick?”
Their “Train” soon loses FedBucks
and he must see* me to win!
*(House Republican transportation committee WigBig – among other things – John Mica managed to support disgraced and now indicted and even worse not out-Gerrymandered Democrat nepotist Corrine Brown through thin and thinner, and got her support from a district that used to stretch gerrymanderedly from Jacksonville through Sanford and into Orlando to ensure yet another “Black” safe congressional seat in a move to ensure he keeps his, much like what is and has been done down south Miami-way. The Brown-Mica managed Sunrail two-car commuter train will run out of federal funding soon and then the voters who were sold a bill of Brown-Mica goods will see how much it costs not to ride on a train going very few places anyone wants. And they will compete directly with the so-called Ultimate I-4 Intrastate (H-4 on Oahu and I-4 in Florida can not be interstate and therefore must be Intrastate) project for funding. If Corrine survives the courts and has to take residence in a gerrymandered but smaller district from Jacksonville towards Live Oak, and Mica must move from his “safe” house that Tom Feeney created and Sandy Adams hid behind after both left Seminole County for safer districts in Brevard and Orange Counties, all I can say to Congress Critter Mica is “Welcome Home, Johnny Boy, The kettle is just up to The Simmer!” Mica’s new district is all of Seminole and about half of the eastern edge of Orange Counties.)
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