When we used to drive around the state, on summer vacation,
my dad knew the
chief-cook-and-bottle-washer in every town,
from going to the University of Florida.
He knew the judge,
the pharmacist, the doctor, the lawyer, the dentist. Then
they were all
in real estate, or state politics. The legislature. Looking out
for
their business interests. One night at the supper table I asked him
how
many mortgages he foreclosed on that day, on the board of
First Federal Savings
and Loan Association of Delray Beach.
Thoreau said if he repented of anything,
it was of his good behavior.
I like Apalachicola oysters. In the winter they
are fat and salty.
The Fish and Wildlife Service--or the Food and Drug Administration--
wants
to shut down the fishery in the summer months, because some people die
every year
from eating oysters and the deaths would be preventable.
Just don't sell them.
Could you gather them yourself, or would that be
against the law, too? In months
that haven't any r, make love less
and drink more. Huh? Aux mois qui n'ont
pas d'r, peu embrasser
et bien boire. Could that be right? I don't remember.
I
need a bilingual fact-checker.
Who gathers his own oysters?
I don't, but my
boys do.