Post by anirbas on May 21, 2013 21:47:32 GMT -6
(a fantasy story poem)
It was just another Thursday night in H-town.
No, not, Houston, Harmony, Texas...
Mostly so quiet you could hear a pin drop
when the train wasn't rolling through downtown.
Yeah, it was just another Thursday in Harmony,
and we were all pulling into the parking lot
to do our stint at Bartlebee's, it was Super Thursday
and Kids Eat for Free! Boss done said,
better call in dead if you ain't gonna show up in costume.
We were getting prepared for the onslaught.
Loud, rotten kids and harried, stressed after work parents
trying to make a living, make ends meet and have a family night
on the restuarants dime, cause, it's Super Thursday!
Kids eat for free! Grab your kids, come one come all.
Grab the neighbor's kids and your cousin's too!
Nobody was looking forward to it, not at all.
Kids eating for free meant tips would be small...
If at all...If at all...If at all...If...At...All...
A group of us were dragging through the side door,
when Wonder Woman got out of an unobtrusive,
midnight blue Kia Spectra car
slamming the door
on the driver,
her mother...
And from that moment on,
the night looked up...
This wasn't Poison Ivy...
This was Wonder Woman
and she was here to rock the house!
I mean, we went to school with her...
Some of us...And we knew her when she was a dancer...
On the drill team, no less...A/B honor roll...
Popular...Friendly...But, this...This was fierce...
This wasn't our Poison Ivy, this was Wonder Woman...
We picked our jaws up off the ground
as she joined the group and into the torture
of Kids Eat for Free Night we all went...
And that's when things started getting interesting...
Small tips or not, I was glad to be there, that night...
The night Wonder Woman landed at Bartlebee's
and half of the town council went to jail...
The kids and dads, in Wonder Woman's section
were happy as larks. The moms were mad as hell
because with Wonder Woman waiting at their tables,
they were getting no attention from their kids or men.
Some of the husbands, had texted their friends
from the men's room and told them tonight
was the night to come have a beer at Bartlebee's
and check out Wonder Woman! She was stacked,
and tightly stacked at that, make no mistake about it...
In no time at all, the bar stools filled up...
Why even the town council woman's husband
and some of his friends showed up, without his
his wife in tow...Not sure that was a smooth move,
considering what happened later...
The parking lot was filled to overflow...
The place was rocking and rolling...
Kids laughing and screaming...
Men at the bar yelling at the big screen television
And checking out Wonder Woman,
fore and aft, everytime she sashayed
by with another box of crayons
and a coloring page, for table
six, seven, or eight...
The town council woman's husband,
most of all...Boisterously saying,
"I knew the woman when she was a baby
in junior high. Look at that. Look at that.
Boys, I tell you, boys of today are lucky!"
About that time, in through the door,
flocks his wife, the town council woman
and a peck of her cronies from the board.
At first, not a problem, the more the merrier.
Besides, Super Heroes are waiting tables tonight!
Super Man, Bat Man, The Green Lantern and Thor
are here! We got this! Wouldn't miss this for the world!
This quiet, Kids Eat for Free night, that wasn't...Quiet...
Tips were flowing...Music was going...Kids were coloring...
Dads were smiling as Wonder Woman walked by...
Men at the bar, were leering. The town council woman
was sneering at her husband everytime Wonder Woman
sashayed into his beer blurred vision...
One look to many, and that was the straw
that broke the camel's back...
The town councilwoman,
rounded the bar and cold cocked
her husband in the face!
Appeared he needed a lesson
about forgetting one's place...
One good punch deserves another,
when you're sitting at the bar
of Bartlebee's on Kids Eat Free Super Thursday!
The reprimanded husband swayed backwards
into a stranger drunk as him...
Stranger laid a haymaker on him...
Councilwoman throat punched stranger...
Screaming, "Oh, no, you didn't!!!"
And suddenly, the entire place was jumping
and seemed to be brawling...Parents were grabbing
their kids and heading for the door...
Chairs started flying and someone's wig
sailed over the bar and landed in a pitcher of beer...
Where was Wonder Woman during this melee?
Cowering under the tables with the rest
of the teenaged wait staff...Afterall, she was only
eighteen and a half, herself...
Scared as the rest of the girls,
no Super Hero, afterall...
But, we boys, um...er...
Young men...Um...Er...Super Heroes
joined in on the fun! Swinging
punches and throwing
food at the drunks
duking it out at the bar.
Then, we started hearing sirens...
Sirens draw near...Nearer...Loud...Louder...
And louder...Three patrol cars
and a sheriff pulled into the parking lot
Sirens wailing, lights flashing, one hand on their guns,
racing towards the door...
Yes, that's the night half the town council,
half the grown men at the bar,
and five teenaged Super Hero males
went to jail on Super Thursday,
Kids Eat for Free at Bartlebee's...
The night Wonder Woman landed
and it was no longer a quiet
Thursday night in H-Town...
No, not Houston, Harmony, Texas.
Woohoo! Can't wait to go to work,
next Super Thursday, Super Hero
night at Bartlebee's, Kids Eat for Free!
Soon as my parents, spring me from jail.
This Thor costume is really starting to stink...
It was just another Thursday night in H-town.
No, not, Houston, Harmony, Texas...
Mostly so quiet you could hear a pin drop
when the train wasn't rolling through downtown.
Yeah, it was just another Thursday in Harmony,
and we were all pulling into the parking lot
to do our stint at Bartlebee's, it was Super Thursday
and Kids Eat for Free! Boss done said,
better call in dead if you ain't gonna show up in costume.
We were getting prepared for the onslaught.
Loud, rotten kids and harried, stressed after work parents
trying to make a living, make ends meet and have a family night
on the restuarants dime, cause, it's Super Thursday!
Kids eat for free! Grab your kids, come one come all.
Grab the neighbor's kids and your cousin's too!
Nobody was looking forward to it, not at all.
Kids eating for free meant tips would be small...
If at all...If at all...If at all...If...At...All...
A group of us were dragging through the side door,
when Wonder Woman got out of an unobtrusive,
midnight blue Kia Spectra car
slamming the door
on the driver,
her mother...
And from that moment on,
the night looked up...
This wasn't Poison Ivy...
This was Wonder Woman
and she was here to rock the house!
I mean, we went to school with her...
Some of us...And we knew her when she was a dancer...
On the drill team, no less...A/B honor roll...
Popular...Friendly...But, this...This was fierce...
This wasn't our Poison Ivy, this was Wonder Woman...
We picked our jaws up off the ground
as she joined the group and into the torture
of Kids Eat for Free Night we all went...
And that's when things started getting interesting...
Small tips or not, I was glad to be there, that night...
The night Wonder Woman landed at Bartlebee's
and half of the town council went to jail...
The kids and dads, in Wonder Woman's section
were happy as larks. The moms were mad as hell
because with Wonder Woman waiting at their tables,
they were getting no attention from their kids or men.
Some of the husbands, had texted their friends
from the men's room and told them tonight
was the night to come have a beer at Bartlebee's
and check out Wonder Woman! She was stacked,
and tightly stacked at that, make no mistake about it...
In no time at all, the bar stools filled up...
Why even the town council woman's husband
and some of his friends showed up, without his
his wife in tow...Not sure that was a smooth move,
considering what happened later...
The parking lot was filled to overflow...
The place was rocking and rolling...
Kids laughing and screaming...
Men at the bar yelling at the big screen television
And checking out Wonder Woman,
fore and aft, everytime she sashayed
by with another box of crayons
and a coloring page, for table
six, seven, or eight...
The town council woman's husband,
most of all...Boisterously saying,
"I knew the woman when she was a baby
in junior high. Look at that. Look at that.
Boys, I tell you, boys of today are lucky!"
About that time, in through the door,
flocks his wife, the town council woman
and a peck of her cronies from the board.
At first, not a problem, the more the merrier.
Besides, Super Heroes are waiting tables tonight!
Super Man, Bat Man, The Green Lantern and Thor
are here! We got this! Wouldn't miss this for the world!
This quiet, Kids Eat for Free night, that wasn't...Quiet...
Tips were flowing...Music was going...Kids were coloring...
Dads were smiling as Wonder Woman walked by...
Men at the bar, were leering. The town council woman
was sneering at her husband everytime Wonder Woman
sashayed into his beer blurred vision...
One look to many, and that was the straw
that broke the camel's back...
The town councilwoman,
rounded the bar and cold cocked
her husband in the face!
Appeared he needed a lesson
about forgetting one's place...
One good punch deserves another,
when you're sitting at the bar
of Bartlebee's on Kids Eat Free Super Thursday!
The reprimanded husband swayed backwards
into a stranger drunk as him...
Stranger laid a haymaker on him...
Councilwoman throat punched stranger...
Screaming, "Oh, no, you didn't!!!"
And suddenly, the entire place was jumping
and seemed to be brawling...Parents were grabbing
their kids and heading for the door...
Chairs started flying and someone's wig
sailed over the bar and landed in a pitcher of beer...
Where was Wonder Woman during this melee?
Cowering under the tables with the rest
of the teenaged wait staff...Afterall, she was only
eighteen and a half, herself...
Scared as the rest of the girls,
no Super Hero, afterall...
But, we boys, um...er...
Young men...Um...Er...Super Heroes
joined in on the fun! Swinging
punches and throwing
food at the drunks
duking it out at the bar.
Then, we started hearing sirens...
Sirens draw near...Nearer...Loud...Louder...
And louder...Three patrol cars
and a sheriff pulled into the parking lot
Sirens wailing, lights flashing, one hand on their guns,
racing towards the door...
Yes, that's the night half the town council,
half the grown men at the bar,
and five teenaged Super Hero males
went to jail on Super Thursday,
Kids Eat for Free at Bartlebee's...
The night Wonder Woman landed
and it was no longer a quiet
Thursday night in H-Town...
No, not Houston, Harmony, Texas.
Woohoo! Can't wait to go to work,
next Super Thursday, Super Hero
night at Bartlebee's, Kids Eat for Free!
Soon as my parents, spring me from jail.
This Thor costume is really starting to stink...
I have lived in small towns (and this is pretty close to truth) in alot of them if you ask me. Maybe not the jail, but everything else!!! Loved it!!!
