HAND ME DOWNS By m.s.wardrip

HAND ME DOWNS

By m.s.wardrip

Delores knows what a whore does on her day off.

I saw her at the church social, eating crumb cake and sipping coffee.

A lady across the table asked her, “Can’t you just wait until the rapture?”

She answered, “I guess I’m in a hurry for something.”, and smiled cunningly.

Now, Robert Sanderson, there’s a horse of a different colour.

Bob is a product of a Rockefeller and a Rothschild, orphaned by abandonment,

Adopted by Mister and Mrs. Jupiter Hornworth Sanderson, graduated from Harvard,

Witty, multi-cultured, proficient in business and finance, a millionaire at twenty-two.

Delores and Robert produce a child named Erie who becomes an unemployed ballerina,

Erie has a boyfriend named BoBo who is going to be a professional skateboarder,

They live in a flat over a paint store in the East side near the river by grain silos and rats.

Erie is good with a baseball bat. BoBo can take good selfies of him and his skateboard.

The baby’s name is Seth. Seth is dressed in grey, no sexuality implied,

Fed on organic everything imaginable, granola child of the new century,

Ingests cannabis from an early age, develops an inferiority complex,

Turns to violence as a recreational sport, challenging neighboring towns to fight.

Seth goes to prison and rots with the rats for murder of a crazed alcoholic biker dude,

He impregnates Lou, a female prison guard who takes family leave to have her,

They name her Cellular Rockefeller Rothschild Sanderson and she is a firecracker!

CRRS becomes a pop star legend by screaming in the middle of the street until arrested.

Cellular has a baby by an unknown assailant who fled the scene in a black Cadillac,

She names the child Eb and moves to Valley City, North Dakota.

Cellular legally changes her name to Jane Doherty and blends into the small town life,

Jane becomes a businessperson and owns her own custom purse manufacturing company.

Eb marries Shirley Haas and they buy a house just outside Valley City,

They have eleven children, Beth, Eb, Sammy, Jody, Billy, Bonnie, Tyler, Nelson, Sharon, Tate and Lawrence. Shirley might be pregnant again. Beth is for the first time.

Beth’s baby is named Jupiter. Jupiter runs away from home at age thirteen. Still missing.

A girl from Pikeville, Kentucky, Nelly Mae runs away from home about the same time.

They meet on the train.

The motion of the train rocking back and forth stirs powerful emotions.

The baby is named Robert. Robert grows up to be an attorney for a railroad company.  

Robert meets a lady waitress named Delores.

Delores has twins, Erie and Seth,

Erie and Seth graduate, marry, have children,

Lou, Eb, Nelly, Delores, Cellular, Mort…