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GOLDIE AND TRIXIE

1/14/2016

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                                                                                GOLDIE AND TRIXIE

                                Please don't think we're too overly senti-
                                mental. But, we think their story ought to
                                be told.

                                They were both pre-Christmas specials.
                                And, economically, old daddy Scrooge
                                couldn't complain too, too much. For after
                                all, they only cost twenty-nine cents each.

                                But, when Tammy Lee came home hold-
                                ing them in their transparent bag of water,
                                those two goldfish might as well have been
                                the most expensive and exquisite fish
                                in captivity.

                                Goldie and Trixie's life span was shorter
                                than we hoped. (We had hoped they would 
                                survive through the Christmas holidays.
                                But, it was not to be.)

                                Tammy took their deaths rather stoically,
                                but we suspect she felt the loss in her heart.
                                And her loss became our loss, and her hurt,
                                our hurt.

                                
Cheap you say. Only twenty-nine cents. Why,
                                Goldie and Trixie, your worth is immeasurably.

                                Like fleeting rainbows, ice-cicles, and scamp-
                                ering pawns, you brought a little Christmas
                                into our home early this year. 

                                (Last article of 1977)

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