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Ladies' Night at Rankin's Hardware Store

jelly jars

chicken-costumed ladies

over-heating in the parking lot

lights are on

electric storm rages

lights are out

clown-hideous orange day lilies bend in the rain

hail!

Where is Clarence with the bucket?

chicken feed

elephant feed

it's all getting soaked

Who wants to play a game?

Where is Swiss?

it's called

FIND SWISS

He's 98 today!

the game is too much fun

no one will play

one chicken costume comes off

she's drenched in there

take her away

Customer Appreciation Day!

and now ladies' night

Where did the pink lemonade go?

I FOUND SWISS!

he was in with the 2 x 4s

charging up a slip for seventeen hot plates

throw them down the feed chute

Save Money!

money

money

money

Frank Rankin

come in at 6 a.m.

god help us

Home DESPOT

But do they have elephant feed?

no sirree bob they don't

Cucumber water it is!

let's drink to that

it's a house made into a hardware store

right around the corner from here

I walk my old lawn mower there once a year

blades sharpened

went there as a kid

for jelly jars

And still do!

we all get chicken feed out back

So Ladies!

pull up a step ladder

or a circus elephant stool

slip out of those hot chicken costumes

I'll explain the rules