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Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2009-02-05 12:06 PM

Mom is old-school
Eastern Europe.

She’s walking Bones
to his first day of school.

She’s taking along
her trusty cat-o-nine tails,
just in case Bones
should get troublesome.

Mom tells the teacher
to teach Bones well
and to tell her if Bones
gives her any trouble.

The teacher agrees.

She never sends
any nasty notes
home to Mom
about Bones.

Bobby

Juju
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since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

1 posted 2009-02-05 12:07 PM

whats a cat o nine tails

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2009-02-05 12:12 PM

Thanks dear Juju,

For the question.

A cat-o-nine-tails is a leather whip, with nine long leather strips coming out of the handle.

It hurts to get hit with one.

Love Bobby

gilead
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since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

3 posted 2009-02-05 12:45 PM

I hear they are quite common in the brothels here in Nevada, Bobby, but, of course, I have no personal knowledge of such things.

I wonder how Bones managed to stay out of trouble and reporting---I'd like to go back in time and change my history!

All kidding aside, I enjoyed the read.

art

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

4 posted 2009-02-05 12:54 PM

"Mom is old-school
Eastern Europe.

She’s walking Bones
to his first day of school"

...must be a Mom-thing...same is true for those from the Missouri bootheel...

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5 posted 2009-02-05 08:50 AM

Thanks Art,

The teacher never reported Bones because she didn't want hin to get a whipping.

Stay out of those brothels. They are places where people are treated cruelly. I stayed in one for a short time with my mother many years ago. You don't need to support any of that.

Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (02-05-2009 12:25 PM).]

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2009-02-05 08:52 AM

Thanks Steavenr,

Yes, you're right, I think it is a Mom thing.

Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (02-05-2009 11:23 AM).]

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2009-02-05 01:06 PM

I remember my first day of school very we,, and how scared I was without the cat o nine tails.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 posted 2009-02-05 01:46 PM

Thanks dear Ida,

Grade school is always a horror.

Love Bobby

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

9 posted 2009-02-05 02:44 PM

hi Bobby, I never loved school, when I was five, I escape from school and went home alone...And now I am a teacher, life can be silly...Thanks for the well inspired poem.

yann

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10 posted 2009-02-05 05:49 PM

Thanks Yann,

I too hated grade school. It wasn't until tenth grade, when I had this math teacher that didn't hate me. Then I got all kind of schlorships.

I hope you are remembering what it was like, and that you are treating those kids good.

Your Buddy Bobby

WindWalker11
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since 2008-12-24

Posts 41

11 posted 2009-02-05 07:02 PM

I remember my days at schools and they were not fun. thank you for writing this inspired poem!

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

12 posted 2009-02-05 07:14 PM

That was a wise teacher then, dear Bobby.

Love,
Margherita

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

13 posted 2009-02-05 07:21 PM

Thanks WindWalker11,

You are right.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

14 posted 2009-02-05 07:25 PM

Thanks dear Margherita,

Her name was Irene Saucerman. In many respects, she save my life. If it wasn't for her encouragement, I'm sure I would have gone to prison. That's where I was heading.

I remember she asked me what my father did, I told her "not much of anything". That was it, she got me a schlorship for bright, fatherless children.

She was a Saint.

She wrote letters for me, and was instrumental in getting me a schlorship to the University of Pennsylvania.

Irene Saucerman, I'll never forget her.

Love Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (02-05-2009 08:10 PM).]

LindsayP
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since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

15 posted 2009-02-05 09:46 PM

Good one Bobby, it just goes to show that when Mum enforces her discipline with the

cat-o-nine-tails nothing else is needed.
Wise Mum.

Lindsay

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

16 posted 2009-02-06 07:36 AM

Thanks LindsayP,

Yes, that's true. Bones was always good in school.

Mom was a very wise woman.

Bobby

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