Playing Fair With A Cheater

Playing Fair With A Cheater

      In high-school I used to play pick-up basketball with Jackowski a lot.  He loved to use his elbows; he pushed me in the back; he even tripped me sometimes.  If I ever touched him he’d flop on the hardwood floor screaming “Foul!  Foul!”  I always admitted any actual fouls; he denied every one.  After awhile other guys in the gym thought I was a dirty player.

 

          I finally gave him up & moved on.

          Today I’m just a regular person but Jackowski is famous; he’s big-shot Republican Congressman.  He’s a natural campaigner – while slandering his opponents he screams, “Foul!  Foul!”

©2012 by L. M. Baumer

image from Bob Donaldson/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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