Now we can say it, Freddie. Get allegory out of the way. We'll get to that place, but for now, verisimilitude virtually ends here in a single hand-me-down mention. No more end-rhymed thee's and thou's.

And I listened once as a child, jumping rope over mom's curly phone cord. AM radio in the winter. Oldies with the "best new songs." It came out thick, in the company of girls, cautionary trucker songs and yes, Joni Mitchell.[1]

The narrative, the innocent and the short-lined, all clear as a bell.





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[1] WIP 660 AM Philadelphia, DJs Ken Garland and Bill "Wee Willy" Webber. Playlist: Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" (If You Love Me, Let Me Know, 1974); Ozark Mountain Daredevils, "Jackie Blue" (It'll Shine When It Shines, 1974); Joni Mitchell, "Help Me" (Court and Spark, 1974).