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Hedonism?
What's 'at? Ah don't have time for no readin' and learnin' big words
like 'at.
Is 'at somp'm lak communism or socialism? Heck, Ah leave all that
politickin' to them soft glad-handers in the big cities. All they
do is wear starched white shirts and shake a few hands ever day and
smile big. They don't know the meanin' of an honest day's work. They
have a easy life of luxury, Ah always say.
Man, all Ah DO is work. Ah have to be down at the shop at 8:30 or
9:00 five mornin's of a week. Ma wife, she cain't fix me no breakfast.
She don't hardly bother me when she gets up at four of a morning to
go to Wal-Mart warehouse. She drives a forklift. She only works four
of them 10-hour days. She has ever Fridey off. Lucky dawg, my old
lady. Well, she ain't really my wife. Ah'm not ready for a commitment
yet, but Ah let the kids take ma name so it won't be confusin' at
school.
Ah told her, "Babe, now you can run outta bread and milk for the babies,
but don't never let me run outta beer in that fridge." Ah have to
have my six-pack every evenin' to unwind from a hard day at work.
Ah get breakfast down at the shop. They always have 'em good fresh
donuts and plenty of hot coffee. We knock off for lunch about a quarter
tuh twelve. Me and the guys go into town and get chicken-fried steak
or jumbo burgers. Then it's back to work. Sometimes it gets slow in
the evenin' and Ah can work on ma Gold Wing Honda Ah'm overhaulin'.
Ah keep it in the back just in case Ah get a chance. Sometimes Ah
put my feet up and take a 30-minute nap. Shore is refreshin' on a
hot afternoon.
Ah call it quitin' time about 4:30 in the evenin'. Gives me some time
to make ma rounds to stop in and see ma buddies. Then Ah head for
the house. We have a good size double-wide on Daddy's land. Four-thousand
square feet. Five bedrooms. Three baths. Two livin' rooms. Pool in
the back. Big-screen TV. I don't know what Ah ever did without those
hunderd 'n fity channels Ah git on that satellite dish.
Me and my boy ride them four-wheelers on the back pasture. Sometimes
we get almost to the next county line. What's the name of that county?
Man, there is some good huntin' back there in the woods. Me and my
buddies camp out there and hunt ever weekend durin' huntin' season.
Good fishin' too.
The only thang Ah ever do just for fun is when me and my buddies go
to Lusiana or them Mississippi River boats for gammlin'. We don't
lose much. Boy, is it excitin'!
What was that word again? Hedonism? It means what? "The doctrine that
pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life"…..hmmmm.
Ah don't know nothin' about that. All Ah DO is work.
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Sandy Fiedler
October, 2000
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