The Best Cure Ever

Wadson Wilkerson came in the barbershop this morning raving about this new tonic he's been taking. He claims he feels like he did when he was forty years old. One fellow spoke up and said he remembered Wadson at forty always complaining about how bad he felt. Wadson said, "Yeah but I kept feeling worser and worser as time went on." Seems like Wadson is always coming up with a new cure. Most are from companies where you sign up and get other people to sign up under you. Then you get a percentage of whatever they buy or sell. Not only are you supposed to get well, you are also supposed to get rich. Someone asked, "Is it good for arthritis?" Wadson told about a woman in Seattle who had put a picture on the internet of her gnarled hands before taking the tonic and next to it a picture of hands that looked like they belonged to a teenager. Wadson kept talking about all the things this thing called Pluffamine Plus would cure. Seems it will take care of any malady known to man. Emerson Blunt asked, "Will it cure gullibility?" Wadson said he didn't know about gulls directly but was sure it would since a man in Kansas had given it to his sick parkeet and got it well. What can I say?

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle