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Easy To Please

from Sturdy Little Men by The Admiral's Boy

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Easy To Please

"This evening we will all go out to the movies" said Sarah. Grandma gave a little smile. She was usually pretty easy to please. She didn't like war movies. Dad discovered that one day when he took her to one at the old Bijou in town one rainy Halloween. Grandma had volunteered as a nurse for the Republican cause in Spain. A bad time she said, a lot of handsome, naive young men who believed in justice and democracy fell before the fascist machines guns. She won't talk about it at all. I tried one time to get her to open up, you know, to get some catharsis. I got her pretty drunk on her favourite whiskey and she talked about an old dog of hers that she had when she was a kid. She found it down by the railroad tracks dragging a mashed leg around. She brought it home and her dad told her if she wanted to keep it she would have to saw the mashed piece of leg off or he would get the .22 and end the misery right then and there. Dad fed the dog a whack load of whiskey, then held it down and while the dog howled and in between up chucks, grandma at the age of nine performed her first amputation. I think that incident encouraged her to become a nurse. She talked about that old dog which went on to a long and healthy three -legged life and she cried a lot. No mention of the war.

Maybe that is for the better. I am easily disturbed by any talk of gore. Mom was telling us about the new movie in town, something about a young professional couple, who buy a haunted house, some kind of comedy. Grandma gave a little smile. She is usually pretty easy to please.

Howard Beye 2012

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from Sturdy Little Men, released October 31, 2013

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