Come to think of it, I'm not sure Naples had
a movie theater, but I think they
had an Army-Navy
surplus store. Brenda bought a pair of jungle boots
with
the camo uppers there. Your mama wears GI boots.
Owen and Balder's mama did.
She could fan coon scat out
with a twig and tell you what the animal had been
eating, by
the bones. Or, in the case of the casting of a raptor, the fur.
She
knew the difference between the frog, Rana pipiens,
and the toad, Bufo
terrestris. The raccoon, Procyon lotor,
and the ring-tailed bassariscus,
B. astutus.
Can your mama do that? Lotor means
wash your hands
before you eat it.
Or you'll get swine flu.