You’d like to run offbut objectively compelling reasonsmake you stay. Kids, for one thing.They seem to need a stoopfrom which you holler for themthat it’s time for dinnerso get your ass home and wash up.They seem to need home base.Otherwise you’d be outta here.Also, the cat.
Flash 55 for Real Toads, in memory of the G-Man, Galen Haynes.
Ha.. yes there are always compelling reason to stay (or for some to leave I guess) .. I think this would work as an answer to any mock-rebel without a cause :-)
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes. And yes.
ReplyDeleteYes! The cat!
ReplyDeleteHa ha, I dont believe you!
ReplyDeletealways the cat ~
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ReplyDeleteCats will roam where they will, but they usually come back for dinner.
ReplyDeleteExistential quandary of the post-marital state--the process grinds so much away, yet it does make a fine sausage in the end. Happy New Year, Marian.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to run away when the girls were teenagers, but I stayed through the hormone storm.
ReplyDeletei don't really want to run away. i also don't holler about my kids' asses from the front stoop. :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't imagine you running away and/or yelling at your kids, but this is fiction, right? And a good write. You made everyone believe it.
ReplyDeleteLuv, K
I always only want to run away for just a few hours a week, (at least)...or long enough to walk the dog by myself. :)
ReplyDeleteimagine!
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