Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Turkey Vultures Are Back!


I don't know about you, but all this gloom-and-doom talk is starting to get to me.

First just yesterday I see JPK pacing slowly along Flagler, working his way toward La Loggia, silent and alone in his thoughts.

Then this morning as I drove into work in my hermetically-sealed SFLmobile I came across nearly a dozen large turkey vultures, feasting on some fresh road kill. I paused briefly, as I watched the carrions determinedly pick the flesh off the bones of the decaying, unidentifiable carcass.

I'm sure this is just a coincidence, right?

Right?

16 comments:

Pearls-for-the-Princess said...

I'm thinking of getting a second job. If you get a phone call from a guy with a husky voice selling magazines don't hang up.

Anonymous said...

Wait SFL, I thought you just said that JPK was downtown. Is La Loggia on your drive to work? Please clarify.

'trane

newbie-who-likes-the-princess said...

JPK was downtown yesterday.

love-fever-for-the-princess said...

7:17, I already took a second job.
I work at the drive thru at McDonald's. Damn that alimony!

Anonymous said...

7:35 you'll make more money selling oranges on the off ramp after 5 o'clock.

honest lawyer said...

Superior writing here SFL. Unfortunately, you have encountered two bad omens, and they usually come in threes.

fans-of-the-colombian-chickie said...

Wanna know what's depressing? Plumbers make more an hour than some attorneys.
Peace out to your chickie.

Anonymous said...

newbie -
Late for the short bus again I see.
Foghorn Leghorn said it best:
"I say, that boy just ain't right."

'trane

Anonymous said...

8:11, good laugh!

'though some of us in the firm are still laughing about the 'pacifier' and 'rattler' joke.

Anonymous said...

SFL if money's a little tight why not sell a couple of your 'home movies' online?

donald-fagen-ranters-for-the-princess said...

In honor of your post SFL accept this salt:

JPK had but one thing to call his own
Three weight ounce pure golden ring no precious stone
Five nights without a bite
No place to lay his head
And if nobody takes him in
He'll soon be dead

On the street he spied my face I heard him hail
In our plot of frozen space he told his tale
Poor man, he showed his hand
So righteous was his need
And me so wise I bought his prize
For chicken feed

Newfound cash soon begs to smash a state of mind
Close inspection fast revealed his favorite kind
Poor kid, he overdid
Embraced the spreading haze
And while he sighed his body died
In fifteen ways

When I heard I grabbed a cab to where he lay
'Round his arm the plastic tag read D.O.A.
Yes Jack, I gave it back
The ring I could not own
Now come my friend I'll take your hand
And lead you home

newbie-who-likes-the-princess said...

'trane whether La Loggia is on his way to work, how and why is it relevant?

epstein-becker-for-the-princess said...

8:51, this summed it up --

Poor kid, he overdid
Embraced the spreading haze
And while he sighed his body died
In fifteen ways

Dylan-ranters-for-the-Princess-1 said...

Alan we know you are into movies, how about windsurfing?

9:51, newbs, did you fall on your head much during your formative years?

Anonymous said...

Has anyone read Alan's book? Seriously, there is no way Alan is SFL.

very-intrested-in-the-princess said...

His book is humorous but lacks SFLs' snark.