10.27.2021

nothing that most people couldn't handle but I'm not most people

When I was young and we were poor and I used to 
gripe about the food, my mother would say 
"Eat what's in front of you and be thankful you 
ain't worse off." That didn't make much of an 
impression then and after I left home I didn't 
think any more about it except to make fun, 
you know how that goes. Then a few months ago 
I had a lot of trouble, nothing that most 
people couldn't handle but I'm not most people 
and it wigged me out all but for good. The 
only way I held my junk-shop life together was 
by remembering all the good old rules: So now 
I honor my father and mother like crazy, go to 
bed real early, take hundreds of stitches 
in time but most of all I eat what's put in front 
of me. Lately I've eaten a lot of forks and 
things and right now there's a nice waitress in the 
hospital just because she didn't move her hand in 
time. It's too bad but I've just got to have the 
rules to keep my arms and legs from flying off, so 
whenever I sit down I think them over and chew 50 
times and say thank you thank you thank you thank 
you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank 
you thank you thank you thank you thank you. 

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