My Grandma Nora tended to react quite strongly
when cheated, swindled or treated wrongly
by a fast-talking larcenous door-to-door fellow
“Spalpeen, you’ll spend every last penny on medicine,” she’d bellow,
invoking an ancient curse she’d learned in County Clare,
which, unfortunately, is not quite as potent now, because of Medicare.

Gene Newman is a retired old guy (90 yrs) and former New Jersey journalist and columnist. Read more at GeneNewmanImagineThat.com.