The poetry, stories and intrigues of C.J. Brenner

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Lickie Longlegs

Here is a fellow that none will miss in the future.  Lickie Longlegs is an avid student, a mathematical wizard and a porsche driver.  All in one mind, this fellow works religiously to improve his lot in life.  He started with Trusting in a higher power as he thought it to be... the green crayon that he was given as a child at age 3.  It was such a big crayon weighing 15 to 20 pounds when it was given to him that he never thought to question that it would indeed last his entire lifetime.  This green crayon was trustworthy, never broke into two and was always convenient and useful to Lickie all of the days of his life.  But there was one major flaw with Lickies ideas,  he neglected to see that there were 63 other crayons made by Crayola and that they were all smaller and replaceable.    His green crayon was so big that nothing little came into Lickie's hands.  I must say that the green crayon left a nice drawing on anything that Lickie signed with it.  It was a polite color and people marveled at Lickie's talents.  He drew circles and copied the bible.  He trusted in the work of his hands and the hours he was alotted to complete his work daily and yearly.   I miss Lickie, I do, but I have to say that he pulled out a gun and aimed it at a police office one day when the police officer asked him to surrender the crayola green crayon for an inspection.  Lickie is now in jail and the crayon was indeed afforded to him to keep in his cell.  Lickie is not unhappy and he has bright green writings to keep him aloft in life.  He sends letters to bowling alleys asking for a bowling ball to throw down the alley way when he maybe gets out on parole in a period of 13 years from now.   Lickie really liked to bowl but the problem was that he had so much crayon wax on his fingers that his fingers often locked in the ball and the ball did not remove itself from his fingers.  Poor Lickie.  It was a problem that he could just not lick.

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