Random Thoughts
...
Indexed

Aunt Megan's Eats and
Mama Jenn's Grub

This is better if my cousin tells the story
But ok, let's give this a try

Two restaurants out on the highway
Two roads just out of town

On the northeast extension of Main Street
Is Mama Jenn's Dinner and Lunch
She opened up just after the interstate went through
and never ever closed, not even once

And out the south on the bypass connector
Aunt Megan's Chicken and More
A couple miles apart if you take Sawyer's Lane
And both have what you're hungry for

Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub
We'd call them
It didn't matter we all knew what we meant

You can see both their signs from the highway
And we all rode our bikes there as kids
We all grew up at Mom's or at Auntie's
Two women keepin' an eye on our tricks

Aunt Megan's my mom, she works 'bout every day
And Mama Jenn's her sister-in-law, so my aunt
The brothers stay out of it - one's in construction
And the other's less steady in banks

Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub
We'd call them
It didn't matter we all knew what we meant

A lot of people only like to go to one or the other

Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub
We'd call them
It didn't matter we all knew what we meant

Wait, isn't there more to this story?
You want me to tell about the dishwashers?
OK

Skinny's over at Mama's and has been for years
He always tells her when to answer the phone
Which is usually just the produce guy
She doesn't get much call for take-out to home

At Megan's - my mom's - things are always changing
She keeps hiring high school kids with a future
She schools them in six different kinds of hard work
Before they leave town forever

Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub
We'd call them
It didn't matter we all knew what we meant

Two restaurants out by the highway
Two havens just out of town

2/25/24
(from a map I drew last September 19th)

Obstructed View: Barbarism

Demo - 3/1/24

typos? comments? mail me here

© Huw Powell
humanthoughts.org

Printer-friendly version - (no indent)