Monday, July 25, 2005

The Onion Man

There was a man named Joe Garden and it was a fine name for him because like a garden he was florid and fecund only instead of leaves and carrots his fruit was the joyful fruit of laughter and i never knew him when he wasn't making us all laugh at ourselves and all the other things that surrounded us. His fruit was as delicious as an onion and he grew these onions as quickly as a thought and gave them to us without our ever asking. Once when there was a Presidential election Joe made buttons and we pinned them on and they said "Vote Joe" and that made me laugh too. I never voted but later, after they elected someone else, Joe made the buttons instead into part of his campaign to fill one of the late night TV slots when they needed to replace the host. And that also seemed fine because it was much the same job as being President and Joe seemed maybe even better suited for it.


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