Growing bored, Chuckie took off
for the nearest big city, making
a splash in the tabloids &
drawing the paparazzi to the Simple
Homestead...

Eli Jr. was ready with a country-honed
huckster's spiel picked up from wandering
carnies & road weary traveling salesmen;
modern day patented medicine men...
Junior was Chuckie's favorite of her
three or so stepchildren. He had his father's...
money. So did she & they got along fine.

No wicked stepmother, Chuckie was
a happy--go-lucky lush, having kicked H
for the sake of maybe breathing another day.
It was a high hope, but the field scrubbed
kid, who'd been selling **** to passing
bikers & truckers for years out of his horse-
&-buggy hot rod, basically a model-T
on wagon wheels; but t suited Junior fine.

He'd completed fifth grade twice & was
ready to take on the world. Eli was also proud.