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Rhodes Ready to Rumble!

  • thompete6
  • May 7, 2023
  • 1 min read

Rhodes checked in, can't believe my luck #RhodesToMorocco #BughouseBlues.

It seems he's happy enough with his tale (Bughouse) of our times on the back wards. In fact, he seems dangerously jazzed. Thinks of picking up that old job--workable, if his altruism hasn't completely faded, if he can dodge the flying cribbage boards, the wads of excrement, the brickbats of his jaded colleagues. By crackee, I think I'd join him! Pure nostalgia--or yet another sign that WE'RE ALL MAD? Who can say?

 
 
 

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