The Poetry Corner

Corner Store Fifties Reveille

By Paul Cameron Brown

I met Bear at the 5 n' dime sipping a Cream Soda he was voluble & needed to talk... "I got a shit-load on my mind," mumbling something about some run-in with a Mountie - tampering with Crown Evidence, the purloined Honey Jar, in question, Jimmy Dean was there, too, polishing his coolness though he would have his own Run-In later in the evening. As Marilyn had left, I decided to forgo Bear's company, still slurping his Soda & crying into the bubbles, some things never change.