Sunday, June 29, 2014

Jenny and Batman Have Tea Part 1




                “This city is full of bad guys. Good thing I am Batman. From a top this building I can look upon Gotham City.”

                “Joey, get off the chair! How many times have I told you not to stand on the chairs?!” My mother yelled as she killed the hopes and dreams of Batman.

                I said in my defense, “But, Mom, I am Batman!”

                “I’ll give you Batman right across those Underroos,” was her unappreciative remark.  I shot my mother a Bat-like look through the Bat mask, opened my cape widely, and jumped off the side of the building landing safely on the streets of Gotham. Behind me I heard the sound of a Young Lady in distress.

                “Hey, Joey, you want to have tea time with me and my friends?” the Young Lady asked. I looked at the Young Lady and said, “I am not, Joey; I am Batman, and Batman does not do what you call Tea Time.”

                “Mommy, Joey won’t play with me,” the Young, now-annoying-Lady said to the Lady-that- brought-me-into-the-world.

                “Joey, you need to play with your sister,” that Lady said.

                The narrator interjects some fact filled information, “Folks, looks like Batman is in a real pickle. He just might be jarred and put on the shelf by the evil villains: The Lady and her side kick Young Lady. What will Batman do next?”

                “But, Ma, I!”

                “Joey, don’t but me!”

                “Batman does not do Tea time or tea parties.” Batman said.

                “JOEY!!”

                “Ok, Ok, I’ll tell Batman we have to do Tea.” I said.

                “He has to wear a dress to my tea party,” The Young Lady said. Batman gave the two ladies a look of shock and horror and said, “Say what?! Batman is too manly to wear a dress.”

                The Lady informed me, “Joey, Cupcake, I’ll tell you what, if you wear the dress and play tea time with your sister, later I’ll take you to the toy store.”

                “He has to wear the blue one and also wear it to the store. We can be Princesses together,” The Young Villain Lady said.

                “Joey, make your sister happy and I will get you something nice,” The Lady said.

                “Can I wear my suit under the dress?” I asked.

                “Batman can wear his suit under the dress. Now go play,” The Lady said.

                It felt cold in the Villains Layer, even heartless. Batman sat at the table dressed in an ugly blue dress. The only redeeming part about this awful contraption was that the color of the dress worked well with Batman’s costume. Batman had jokers to the right and jokers to the left. On the right a brown happy little bear with permanent a grin named Fossie bear who just says “Waka, Waka”. To the left was a white horse with a horn sticking out of its head. The horse just looked at me and commented, “What’s your problem? You never seen a white unicorn with purple hair before?” The other Guests at the table were two other bears and a pig. All I could think was Holy-Grape-Jelly, Batman! Were in a jam and we don’t even have any peanut butter!

                “Would you like some more tea, Mr. Batman?” the Young lady asked.

                ‘No thanks, but I will take two pieces of bread so I can click them together and say, “There’s no place like Gotham. There’s no place like Gotham City.”  

               

               

 

 

Sunday, June 22, 2014

JOEY'S RAVEN



Once upon a midnight dreary,

In a bleak December,

I pondered weak and weary.

While I napped in my bed chamber I heard a gentle rapping.

A rapping from my chamber door,

Or a rapping on my window pain.

No wait, could the rapping be my closet door?

I waited once more to hear the rapping at the closet door.

I look once more for my baby bear upon my chest.

Deep into the darkness peering,

Long I stared like a deer in head lights wondering, fearing, even doubting.

Silence broken rapping growing ever louder.

Only light upon my chamber shone from yonder window panes across my chamber floor.

Sound of tapping could it be my closet door?

Could it even be a monster?

A monster lurking in my closet

Behind my closet door in my bed chamber rapping and tapping at the door.

All my soul within me burning, burning with fear for the monster

Lurking behind my closet door.

Wait, I heard a whisper,

Not a rapping, not a tapping,

Not a word coming from my closet door.

Once again a whisper and now it comes from my chamber window.

I sprang out of bed to the window sill

I threw open the curtain,

And to my surprise an ebony bird,

A RAVEN rapping, tapping and whispering words upon my window.

Was not a monster in my chamber closet,

But a dirty fowl upon my window sill.

Nether friend nor foe

I tried to shoo the evil bird from my window sill.

I tried to shoo the fowl upon my sill away to only hear it say’ “Never”

I motioned once more by tapping on the window pain,

Tapping as hard as it is tempered,

But still the black upon my window sill cries out “Never.”

I ran down the stairs after exiting my chamber,

Pulled open the door to the outside.

The horror, the fantastic terrors of the night.

I stepped into darkness and ran to the window outside.

I looked to the heavens and saw upon my chamber window sill the ebony foul,

The RAVEN looking not at me, but down at me.

 It, the Raven, smiled with the grave and stern decorum of countenance it wore.

 I looked upon the ground to see what I could find in the night

 a rock or stick that was once part of a branch part of a tree.

Ah, I found it, a stick as hard as hickory, and as strong as hard

As I could I throw that stick of hickory at that black beast.

The window broken, the RAVEN broke flight without even a word,

 Without even a rap or a tap. 

No word from the bird, but I said a word, “Never”

I ran back to the house back to my bed chamber.

I looked upon my window pain, broken.

I looked upon my chamber floor and saw the pieces of my window pain.

In the shadows of my chamber floor the stick of hickory.

I wiped my eyes and, then yelled, “Ma, a tree branch fell and broke my window!!”

Monday, June 2, 2014

Day Out With Nurse Mommy part 2







 

                Mommy walked off and The Lady from the desk looked at me and smiled as she turned the “open” sign over. In about an hour, the waiting room started to fill up. An old guy sat down beside me he asked, “What are you here for?” “I am here because I have trouble going to the bathroom and a little problem with my flow.”  I said, “I don’t have a problem going; I have a problem with flushing. My Daddy says I have big poops that won’t flush, and he sometimes has to do what he calls ‘snaking the drain’. My mommy says, “Good thing your Daddy owns a septic company, son; it’s because of you that we’re going to have to clean out the septic tank a lot sooner than most people.”

                The old guy says, “I see young man, luckily, I don’t have that problem.” A nurse opened the door to the back, and called out, “Mr. Peterson.”

                “Well kid, see you later. That’s me she’s calling,” The old guy, Mr. Peterson, said. After about 30 minutes the old guy Mr. Peterson comes out, and behind him was one of the Docs telling him over, and over that he was sorry. I was confused, because the old guy was walking like one of those guys in old west movies that just got off a horse after a long ride. Mr. Peterson looked at me while the Doc asked him, “Would you like me to subscribe some pain medication?”

                In a soft raspy voice Mr. Peterson said, ‘No. That’s ok. I’ll be fine.” Mr. Peterson looked at me, and smiled as he made his way to the door. Just seeing him walk the way we did scarred me. I asked The Lady at the desk if I could go to the back and visit my mother. The Lady gladly buzzed me in to the back. The door closed behind me with a click and all I could see was a long hallway with doors while my little ears picked up the sound of moans and groans. Over the intercom I heard, “Mrs. Stein, to room 12,” and then saw my mother at the far end of the hall come out of one hallway and it looked like then go into a room.

                I yelled, “Mommy,” but she didn’t hear me. So I slowly walked up to the room she was in. I was a little scared still. I could even hear my heart going bump, bump, bump. The door to room 12 was cracked just a little and I could smell a strange odor coming from the room kind of like the smell after Mommy had cleaned the bathroom, but different. I peered into the room looking through the partly opened door, and my heart started bump, bump, bumping even faster. I saw my Mother in the room with a doctor and a guy laying on a table.

                The doctor says, “Sir, this might hurt for a bit at first.” The man on the table said, “Please be gentle.”

                The doctor looked at my Mother and says, “The device, please.”

                My Mother nodded and unwrapped a long silver thing that looked like a snake with a large eye on one end. The Doctor took the long silver snake from my Mother and said, “Here we go.” He pulled a towel away from the man’s waist. The man yelled out in pain as the doctor grabbed his penne and started shoving the silver snake in to his pee-pee hole. Then put my hand over my mouth and started backing up, when it happened.

 I bumped into a nurse that was carrying a container of yellow stuff. The container went flying through the air, hit me in the head, and the yellow stuff started sliding down the back of my head. Funny thing is, as I stood in the hallway like a wet deer caught in the head lights, I could smell the odor of pee-pee. Could the yellow liquid, be the cause of the foul smell? The nurse I bumped in to asked, “Are you alright sweetie?”  Just then, my Mother came out of room 12 and saw me standing in the hallway. My mother shook her head and looked at me and just said, “Joey!” She grabbed me by the arm and took me to a bathroom to clean me up. She gave me a towel and told me to dry off my head, and left me in the bathroom for a couple of minutes. When she came back she told me that I was to go back to the waiting room and wait for my father to come and pick me up. I just nodded my head not saying a word still. In the waiting room, 30 minutes passed by and dad finally showed up.   He helped me pick up my stuff and we headed out the door. On the drive back home he asked, “What happened?”

                I looked at him and said, “Look, Dad, you can’t go to the Urologist anymore.”

                “What do you mean??”

                “You remember all those alien movies we saw? Especially the parts where they were doing weird things to people and cows,” I said.

                “Ya, I remember.”

                “Well, I saw a doctor probing the ‘you know where’ area on a guy and Mommy was in the room with him. Those Urology doctors are Aliens!  I don’t think they’re even human,” I said.  My dad answers with, “You don’t say.”

                “And you know what the sad part is.”

                “What’s that son?”

                “If we go in there and kill the aliens Mommy will be out of a job,” I ended with.

                “All Dad said was, “Your right about that.”