McFawn, Monica

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Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal Volume 9 Issue 1 Article 35 June 2009 Still Good Monica McFawn Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate Recommended Citation McFawn, Monica (2009) "Still Good," Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 35. Available at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol9/iss1/35 This Fiction is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact ORB@binghamton.edu. TILL G OD M nica McFawn ne day roggy Dagner hewed me his masterpiece and taught me hi mech ds. 'They're u ualiy all curled up and son of hidden in the gra s by where the road ends so you have to look down for n that' rill hiny and doesn't look broke. Here's a good one cau e it's green and big and isn't broke so now we take it to the cream and wash it out. You gotta turn it inside out and swish it ar und r al g d and maybe put your hand in it to get it stretchy o it hang better." Froggy trusted me with the job of stretching and drying, o I put my hand in it and spread my fingers as we walk d t what he called his 'Magic Bounty Tree,' a big tree outfitted in about a hundred u ed prophylactics, some of them pulled over big branch , training so they looked like squeaky web , me of chem filled with pinecones and rocks to help chem hang I w, m imply tossed up as high as Froggy could throw, and the e ccled on the high branches like little angel stockings nagged off during a low Bight. It was an awesome sight, and I w a puzzled as Froggy when he said he didn't understand why pe ple rhr w them out when they were still good. 140 1McFawn: Still GoodPublished by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2009

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