Howdy,
Don’t forget the … !
Don’t forget the … tickets! Tickets to the big game. Tickets to the special concert. Tickets onto the plane.
Don’t forget the … keys! Keys to that second vehicle, the one you’re driving tag team with someone else who’s relying on you to go pick up. Keys to the vacation cabin in the woods at the end of a snaking mountain road. Keys to the boat been launched but bobbing at the dock, waiting for its owner to check his pockets a fourth time. Pat. Pat. Pat. They’ve got to be here.
(Don’t forget the plug to keep that bobbing boat afloat.)
Don’t forget the … gas nozzle in the SUV tank. The warm Pepsi can in your friend’s freezer. The finished wash in the washing machine. The ice cream in the grocery bag. The dirty diaper in the car baking in the summer sun. The coffee maker’s auto-brew. The buttons on your fly.
Have you done that, any of those things? What a terrible feeling or nasty mess. I get nervous and sweaty palms just thinking it could happen …
Don’t forget the …
Uh, let’s be more positive. Remember the …
The … nucleus.
—Billy
Remembering. Writing. Living.