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Memories of grandpa

george RAYMOND26 Comments

My grandpa wore

fishing lures every day,

fastened to his hat.

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There were pink ones,

and green ones,

and blue ones,

and yellow ones.

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Some were shaped like fish,

and some not at all.

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But so far as I can tell

he was never known to

have caught anything.

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Nothing at all.

***

Except that one

time when grandpa

removed his hat

too quickly

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And how on that day,

grandpa caught an

entire human scalp.

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  2. Have you seen “Big Fish,” a film by Tim Burton starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, and a number of other notable actors? Your post today reminds me of that film, which I have on DVD. It might inspire you to grow the legend of your grandfather…

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    • My first time fishing was devastating. I had all this nice equipment, and I loved finding places for all my new stuff in my official fishing carry-case, with its many little pockets and flaps. But soon after I discovered that fishing involved actually killing a fish — and as my parents often repeated, I totally lost it.

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