Questions!
Where did it go?
Did it go out for a pack of cigarettes and never come back?
Is this a reboot of the Taken series, or a continuation?
Is this a new Eggos commercial?
Are you searching for a young lady attending college for her MRS. Degree to emerge from your kitchen with a plate of baby back ribs?
Do you miss those good ol’ days when men worked the land with their hands? When we had a sense of pride in our crops, and shared it equally with the people. A cropsharing, if you will.
Is this an elaborate game of Red Rover?
Maybe you lost it during those humid Southern years when the city workers were being kind, and offered you a drink from a high-pressured hose?
Ah! Have you tried looking back and to the left?
Did you trade parts of it away to ‘friends’ before realizing you’ve picked all your favorite things clean apart and
instead of accepting your own actions and insecurities, it’s better to blame everybody else?
Because saying you’ll ‘Make America Great Again,’ and pleading for someone to ‘Bring Your Country Back’ are two sides to the same dead white President’s coin. A caricature, nostalgic, and costs more than your penny thought is worth.
Fun fact: It costs 1.7 cents to make a 1 cent penny.
I’m still waiting for that Red Barbie-doll dress to come back to me.
—jes
Flommist Jes exists for moments of fiery inspiration. See her inspirational byproducts at jdeprez.com. Copyright © 2016 JES DEPREZ. Screen grab from advertisting: what it’s doing to your life; housewife source; cotton field, source; fire hoses, source; internment in America, source; and spare change by mehallo.
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