I am losing my nouns.<\/p>\n
No, this is serious.
\nCareless, I know,
\nto lose so valuable a commodity;
\nbut I am not doing it on purpose:
\nI think some one
\nor some thing
\nis stealing them.<\/p>\n
It happened again
\nat the grocery place
\nyesterday:
\nI was talking to
\none of the store people
\n\u2014 clerks \u2014 serving guys \u2014
\nasking for those
\nround things made of
\nflaky pastry,
\nbut I asked for
\nthe puffy stuff,
\nand they wanted to
\nsend me to the
\nfreezer place;
\nbut I knew it wasn’t frozen:
\nit was already baked.<\/p>\n
Little round things
\nyou put creamed fish on
\nwith peas?
\nCreamed salmon.<\/p>\n
Pastry shells, he said
\nand took me carefully \u2014
\nthe way I help the elderly \u2014
\nover to the shelves
\nwhere the shells were.
\nOn the way, I explained
\nto him that I was
\nlosing my nouns.<\/p>\n
I think he thought
\nit was more than
\nmy thingamjigs
\nthat was going.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any
\ninformation about this
\nor any other crime
\nis invited to call
\nCrimestoppers.
\nWe don’t have call display;
\nwe don’t want your name
\njust your information.<\/p>\n
[podcast]http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/podcast\/Noun_theft.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am losing my nouns. No, this is serious. Careless, I know, to lose so valuable a commodity; but I am not doing it on purpose: I think some one or some thing is stealing them. It happened again at … Continue reading