Momma got some news today from up on Choctaw Ridge.
My GOD, I can’t believe no one’s started this today yet, come ON people!!!
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I see it’s another sleepy, dusty Delta day.
Hey! We’re all busy! Choppin’ cotton and balin’ hay!
Pass the biscuits, please.
Yep, and at dinner Papa said to mama as she passed around the black eyed peas that Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please
Wasn’t I talkin’ to him after church last Sunday night?
Naw, I don’t go to church. Certainly not at night.
I sure wish Mama would stop hollering at us to wash our feet.
No, but you were recollecting how brother, Tom and him put a frog down your back at the Carroll County picture show.
It seems like a waste of time to wash my feet when there’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to plow.
Yeah, but don’t you want a piece of that apple pie?
No, I don’t know what’s happened to my appetite. Mama’s been cookin’ all morning and I haven’t touched a single bite.
Well, that’s 'cause Brother remembers when they put that frog down your back at the picture show. That’s enough to take anyone’s appetite away.
Well, I just saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge! What an idiot!
Yeah, but is he as cute as that Brother Taylor, the nice young preacher?
I haven’t met him yet. Mama said he dropped by today, but I was out choppin’ cotton. But I understand he said he’d be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, though. I hope we won’t be having leftover black-eyed peas. These things tend to congeal.
I heard he dropped something off the Talahachee Bridge. Anybody know what that was?
Nope, but Mama said that Brother Taylor reported a girl was with Billy Joe when they was throwin’ something off the bridge.
::::crickets:::
Flowers. Just flowers. Or,
We were playing . . .
Oh. We were . . .
Yeah. Flowers.
Rumor has it they threw a RC Cola bottle and a Moon Pie wrapper off the Talahachee Bridge.
No good ever seems to come from Choctaw Ridge.
Now, you tell me Billy Joe McAllister’s jumped off the Talahachee Bridge?
Well, I read the news today…Oh, boy.