big fun family togetherness times.

whaaaaaaaat??
even pooped-up squack can't compete with that, my ninjas.
just the five of us,
in full effect.
having a time of it.
a good time of it, at that.
making the best out of the trials and tests
of vacation visitation frustration.
concentrate, duders.
with your mind.
and concentrate,
like a bouillon of super-saturated thunder-sap
distilled into Folk Life & Liberty warrior poetry.
so good.
*
we hit up the walk-in clinic this morning,
and got a deep-pockets diagnosis.
fifth's disease.
when you have it,
you just have it,
until you don't have it anymore.
$100 for a doctor to take three actual minutes
to tell us that.
we waited for over an hour in the reception area.
$33.33 a minute?
that's a rate i can respect,
even if the prognosis was petulant and prim.
*
we did the green elephant for dinner.
vegan shark gluttony, in big bigger bites,
lots of swallowing,
and little to no chewing.
the five fingers of folk life, neighbors.
that's a fistful of fretful feasting,
fraught with fresh veggies and spicy soy nuggets.
that's a thing.
for real.
since we were already in portland, maine,
we hit up trader joe's,
and whole foods, too.
crackery, uppity snobbery?
yes, please.
we've got holistic, healthy hunks of
twenty different kinds of treats an' that.
organic cookies are still fatty-boombatty calorie bombs,
but they don't have any funky chemicals,
so it's good for you, right?
c'mon.
we did it,
we drove,
to, fro, and in the mix of the midst of maine's downeast coastline....
and now we're back where we began.
with no time on either side of any minute in my life,
we made a slated-up slot
of family togetherness.
that is absolutely what's up.
full hearts,
full bellies,
full schedules.
oh, and fifth's disease.
it's all really happening;
never quiet, never soft.....