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I’M IN DEEP DOO DOO NOW

                

 

 

(TO THE TUNE OF: He's in the jailhouse now (he's in the jailhouse now)
He's in the jailhouse now (he's in the jailhouse now)
Yeah, he broke out
All over town, the fool walked about
He's in the jailhouse now)

 

 

I’M IN DEEP DOO DOO NOW. 

I’M IN DEEP DOO DOO NOW.

YEAH, I FORGOT TO WATER

JOHNNIES POTTED PLANTS OUT FRONT.

I’M IN DEEP DOO DOO NOW.

 

 

JOHNNIE, MY WIFE, WENT TO COLORADO FOR TWO WEEKS TO HOUSE SET FOR HER COUSIN WHILE HE WENT TO OREGON TO HIS FAMILY REUNION. 

 

BEFORE SHE LEFT SHE TOOK ME BY THE HAND AND MARCHED ME AROUND THE BACK YARD AND SHOWED ME EACH OF HER ROSE BUSHES AND SPECIAL FLOWERS I WAS TO WATER DAILY.  WE HAVEN’T HAD A RAIN HERE IN TEXAS FOR THREE WEEKS NOW.

 

 

AFTER WE MADE THE ROUNDS OF THE BACK YARD, SHE TOOK ME TO THE FRONT YARD.  SHE HAS SEVERAL BIG, AND I MEAN REALLY BIG POTS OF FLOWERS ON THE FRONT PORCH AND DOWN THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE.  I’M NOT A FLOWER PERSON SO I CAN’T TELL YOU THE NAME OF ANY OF THESE FLOWERS, BUT I DO KNOW THAT EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAYS THEY ARE SOMETHING SPECIAL.

 

 

SHE GAVE ME INSTRUCTIONS AS TO HOW I WAS TO WATER THEM AND PINCH OFF THE BLOOMS AS THEY STARTED FADING SO NEW BLOOMS WOULD KEEP COMING ON THE PLANTS.  IF I OVER WATERED THEM IT WAS BAD FOR THEM.  ROOT ROT OR SOME SUCH.  IF I UNDER WATERED THEM, THEY WOULD NOT BLOOM.  IF I FORGOT AND DIDN’T WATER THEM AT ALL THEN THEY AND I WOULD DIE.

 

 

TALK ABOUT MOTIVATION!  I GOT THE MESSAGE.

 

 

FOR TWO WEEKS I WATERED THOSE PLANTS JUST LIKE I HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED.  I WAS PROUD OF MYSELF.  THE ROSES IN THE BACK YARD WERE STILL BLOOMING AND THE REST OF THE BACK YARD LOOKED GREAT.

 

 

JOHNNIE WOULD BE HOME IN THE MORNING AND I HAD THE HOUSE CLEAN, ALL THE DISHES WASHED AND EVEN DID THE LAUNDRY.  AFTER SUPPER I WALKED OUT ON THE FRONT PORCH TO LOOK AT THE FLOWERS IN THE BIG POTS.  AS I WALKED DOWN THE LINE OF POTS, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, JOHNNIE WON’T HAVE A THING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT.

 

 

AS I WAS MENTALLY PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK I CAME TO THE CORNER OF THE HOUSE.  THEN I LOOKED DOWN THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE IN HORROR.  I HAD FORGOTTEN TO WATER THE POTS DOWN THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE.  THERE WERE ONLY THREE OF THEM, BUT THERE THEY SAT FULL OF DRIED UP, DEAD AS A DOOR KNOB FLOWERS.

 

 

I’M IN DEEP DOO DOO NOW, I THOUGHT.  WHAT WILL JOHNNIE DO?  WELL WHAT SHE DID IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

 

 MAY HE REST IN PEACE
 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2002

 

LOREN

 SEE YA

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