MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Lisbee, the Lady of the Forest
checked in on Sir Boner to make sure he was not doing something...er....that seemed
to be in his very nature.
He seemed to be half awake as his fever broke and he was
hallucinating:
Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, the British
Aristocratic economy needs help. Our neighbors, our friends, our
constituents, they're hurting and there's not a member at this Roundish Table
on either side of the aisle that doesn't understand that. And I think
everyone in this chamber on both sides of the aisle understands that Congress
needs to act and act now to help British Aristocratic families and small
businesses and help bring confidence back into our economy.
"How about the family who called
me about the fact that the bread winner's hours are going to be cut from 40
hours to 20 hours? He can hardly make his payment. What does it do
for him? Absolutely nothing. And so, my concern about this is that
we have to have a plan that will work for the British Aristocratse, work for
families, work for small businesses and help get our economy going again.
I don't think this bill does it. I hope this bill works. I really
do, for the good of our country. But my concern is that the plan that's
outlined will not do what we want it to do. That's why Aristocrats came
to the table with what we thought was a better idea, a plan that will create
twice as many jobs as the bill that we're dating and at exactly half the cost.
"But our ideas weren't
considered. We weren't allowed in the room. We weren't allowed to
participate at all. And all the talk about bipartisanship that we have
heard over the last several months went down the drain. Now my Plebian
colleagues know that I know how to be bipartisan, even when we were in the
majority. I have worked with many members on the other side of the aisle
to bring bills to this floor that truly were done together. But we would
usually start at the beginning of the process. Not only were we not
included in the beginning of the process, we weren't included at the end f the
process.
"I'd suggest that you vote no."
It is a good thing I did not
vote no when I found you in a pile of deer leavings, do you not think?
Boner awake from his hallucinations and stared at the beautiful
Lisbee. Who are you?
Well, a fancy thanks I gets for
savin the likes of you unfair knight. Ha!
Where am I, how do I find myself
here?
Well we met just a few days ago
and you have, evidently recovered from an infection that came from a break in
your leg. As a matter of fact we had several conversations before I found you
again in never never land! You do not
recall me at all unfair knight?
You are Lisbee. Now I remember.
But I went into a dream, I was at the Roundish Table once again, making my
pleas on behalf of Sir Cheney. What happened to Sir Cheney.
Oh he was done away with by a
girl.
What?
Sir Cheney was done away with,
as you so eloquently put it, by a fourteen year old girl, Flower d'Arc.
How doest thee knoweth this.
I knoweth this because when I
found you the Grand Tree of the Forest
told me so you idiot. Ha!
You talk to trees?
I speak with all creations of
our Lord & Savior dunce. (Blesses
herself carefully)
But how could a mere girl
destroy the most vibrant and powerful man of our age? It makes no sense. Sir Boner swoons again.
Lisbee cradled him. She always liked to cradle the sick, regardless of
their political leanings. It was part of her make up so to speak. As he slowly
responded, the Lady of the Forest began to feed him some soup with special
herbs, it was not exactly Cambells or Liptons, but it was all she could muster
so to speak, even though she really had not yet discovered mustard yet but it
had a distinct tang due to the roots she had found decades ago in the forest.
Slowly he sipped from the sustenance he had been offered and came to
his senses. Sort of, I mean how many of the British Aristocracy ever came to
his senses except Churchill from time to time but then again, he was half
American and had a sense of humor.
In a few days, Sir Boner was able to sit erect, so to speak, no puns intended...well kind of intended but come on, I am attempting to create some interest in this drivel for chrissakes. (Blesses himself just in case)
Oh thank the Lord (blesses herself) you are up and about,
so to speak. Now you can carry your own waste out of here.
What? Oh my lord, I am so
embarrassed, I.....
Oh my lead boar takes care of
such thing. Has an RN you know from one of those web universities. But he has
potential and for some reason he really likes your waste. Which is more than
your compadres at the Roundish Table I gather.
Oh, goooooooooood. How did you
know come to know about my experiences with the Roundish Table of late? Did we
speak of such things?
Sort of unfair knight. You were
pontificating in your hallucinatory state, ranting and raving that no one would
listen to you anymore. It was rather humorous you know. Ha!
Why doest thou continue in
referring to me as unfair knight. What did I ever do to you.
Well you kept filling the bucket
underneath your cot. Hahahahahahahaha
Just then there was a knock at the door.
As she opened the door, the Lady of the Forest beheld a rather strange and wondrous sight.
A naked man had appeared carrying a satchel of sorts. He was slim and good
looking but pale, even with his sunburn. His hair, what was left of it was
askew. And she did not even have to ask him his shoe size. Ha!
He promptly collapsed on the floor of her home. Get up and help me with
this Sir Bones or whatever they call you.
Boner immediately arose, slightly light headed but proceeded to the
door and helped Lisbee load the new visitor onto the cot.
Time to change buckets, Lisbee said as she placed a clean bucket
under the cot. What the hell am I running here, some sort of treatment center?
Quickly the Lady of the Forest
covered the stranger's privates as well as his publics. It appeared that the
vagrant had some chills. Oh my God, another one with the ague. What is a mother
to do?
Madam, if I may intervene...
Madam? What the hell is that. I do not run a brother ye unfair
scoundrel. I am a Lady...
All right!! All right. I am dense, all us repubs are, but I hear you.
Lady, I mean to say Lady....I know this man. He is a magistrate of one of our
most Western Counties, adjacent to that strange and despicable place known as Wales... Give me room Woman!!!
Lisbee was to taken aback by Boner's tone. She thought: I thought him
less than a man until he showed me some spunk. At last, a man in the house. But
then again this new guy, even with no surety as to his shoe size......
Sir Boner examined the knight on the cot and saw that he had no wounds.
He appeared to be breathing all right and there was a light on his countenance
that caused him to.........
He is one of those girls who seems to come in the spring
One look in his eyes and you forget
everything
You had ready to say
And I saw her today, yeah...
Chorus:
A younger girl keeps a-rollin' 'cross my mind
No matter how much I try, I can't seem to leave his memory behind
I remember his eyes, soft dark and brown
I'll bet he'd never been in trouble, or even in town
A younger girl keeps a-rollin' 'cross my mind
And I shouldn't hang around, acting like his brother
In a few more years, they'd call us right for each other
And why
If I wait I'll just die, yeah...
A younger girl keeps a-rollin'
'cross my mind
No matter how much I try, I can't seem to leave his memory behind
I remember his eyes, soft dark and brown
I'll bet he'd never been in trouble, or even in town
A younger girl keeps a-rollin' 'cross my mind
What the hell is this all about? the Lady of the Forest thought.
First
I find a boy who ends up being a man, then I come across a man who needs my
help and the first man turns out to be.......No wonder I never find my way out of
this goddamnable forest. (Blesses herself, kind of)
The next day the second transient
appeared to have gathered his wings, so to speak. He was up and about and after
awhile, actually remembered who he was and where he had been.
Where am I? How did I come to be
here?
Geeeeeeeeeez, this is the same
dialogue over and over again for chrissakes. Cannot you do better than this
Dickon? Thought our Lady of the chatroom...er...Forest.
But
you are the Governor of Wallshop County. You are the venerable Sir Sanford. You
used to run a hardware near London
called: Sanford and Sons.
Oh,
I remember that. That was me dad's and mine. Then I was recruited by that
Chinky guy. And I entered the Aristocratic Party and they accepted me, even
though I had this Southern Drawl.
Where
have you been Sir Sanford?
Well,
the terrible onus of governance became such a terrible....I could not take it
anymore. And then that herald found out I had been boinking this broad in
...where that Evita broad was....and then my wife took quite umbrance from all of
this hullabaloo and she was in her menstral cycle and all that....
Are
you well enough to travel my favorite governor who has the closest thing to my
own tan and countenance I can remember?
Why
yes I am, as he looked at the cool blue yes of his patrician partner.
Sir Sanford did not even bother to
get dressed. He and Sir Boner bid their respective adieus, leaving some silver
and some gold the governor still had in his teeth.
As she watched the two flitting down the forest path she heard Boner singing:
At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
At last the skies above are blue
And my heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I can speak to
A dream that I could call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
You smiled, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
And you are mine at last
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8FHwsATN0E
I have had it with repubs and
aristocrats the Lady of the Forest called out. I mean and they did not even play Queen. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
ENSIGN, GET IN HERE AND CLEAN UP THIS BUCKET
The boar promptly returned to do his duty.