These are some names I’ve been called this week:
Sick Puppy
Snotty McSnotterson
Miss Sniffelupagus
As in, “Need a tissue, Miss Sniffelupagus?”
Hey now, didn’t your mothers teach you that it’s not polite to call people names?
Mine did.
My mother also taught me the words to a Contac cold medicine jingle from the 1960s, when “they were allowed to sell the really strong stuff over the counter.”
“A summer cold is a different animal
An ugly animal, oooh!
It hits you in the summer,
When you’ve got a lot to do!â€
This is what I’ve been listening to this week while I breathe noisily through my mouth:
I Do by Jewel
Feeling Good (which I do not) by Nina Simone
Something Good This Way Comes by Jakob Dylan
Casual Viewin’ by 54-4
Forever by Chris Brown
