Show c I What happened to dreamers Do they spend all aU their time as small boys staring glue eyed at atthe atthe the tho Idiot box Do they ever lie He Heon on a 1 hill and Imagine knights and castles In passing clouds Do they ever watch an ant carry away a dead fly Do they dream I Too much of m my time Ume was wasI I spent dreaming out the window I In school when I should have been trying to memorize the theRoman theRoman Roman noman numerals But atut i ut enough good dreams dream remained to make me wonder wander now what small I boys bos do for Imagination For Instance when I was six I knew that I I If It you ran in fast circles circled around a a. prairie-dog prairie owl its head would I screw tight on Its neck and finally finally fin fin- ally pop oft off I If It I 1 called my brother a fool I 1 was in n danger of hellfire hell I I Ithen Wallpaper was put on solidly then the doors and windows were cut out Hey Heyl Why not I If a coyote howled In the full fulli fullmoon I moon some one within hearing would die Town kids were automatic ally wickeder than country kids I If It I eald said a certain dirty four- four letter word woid my tongue longue woud crop of ott Finn time I 1 said ItIn it itIn itin in a fit of rage at a fleeing hen henI I was wasse scared red to to d death lb i In order for a horse to find Ind Its way home homo In a blizzard bUzzard you had to blindfold it If u I I acted silly dilly everybodY everybody would say the McConaughy s youngest was not a well child I I Sedans would never sell Who I i would dare ride around at 25 28 per hour surrounded by glass My dad was the tallest man in inthe inthe inthe the neighborhood He woe was really five feet nine If I walked down saloon street the fumes would knock me down dead Politicians bankers and landlords land laud lords might go to church every Sunday but they would still go straight to hel hell I Everybody wore hand down I overalls Fish would bite best on bacon baconrind baconrind baconrind rind It if you burled buried it 16 overnight In Inthe Inthe inthe the henhouse hen I Nothing In the world so good as a tick stuffed full of clean hay If the flap slipped out on my knickerbockers all the ladles ladies I would turn tum haired gray immedi Imm lI If It you went fishing on Sunday you would drown for euro suro I i i Tobacco spit from a graS per was deadly poison 1 I A snake hoop actually formed formE I Itself into a hoop by gra grasping the tho tip tall in the mouth and could I roll faster than a small boy could run I Nice ladles ladies turned their eyes away when prize stallions and bulls known as gentleman horses and were paraded at ut Ithe I Ithe the county fair Height of sophistication and utterly wicked was was- when an older boy chanted I I see London I Isee see France I 1 see Marys Mary's under pants School teachers were infallible beyond reproach just like angels and more desirable if it f they were old past 30 that Is ie and had double chins f 1 J Ladles Ladies in a delicate condition were never to tobe be seen In pub lie Ilc f t j W Well U on second thought maybe maybe may may- be these weren't dreams Maybe they were what somebody else told me And maybe with most of ot them I I would have been just justas as well off oft without Which Is as asgood asgood asgood good as any way to end a sen son son- Mac tence Mac |