Joann Snow Duncanson                           and Fred Samuels

Breakfast in the Bathtub

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"Breakfast in the Bathtub." In this story, Joann tells about her friend Jacquie who has the odd habit of eating breakfast in her bathtub every morning. " .... One day she had just gotten all settled in her sudsy water when she accidentally knocked her cereal bowl and its contents right into the tub with her. 'I just sat there looking at those blueberries, banana slices, and Fruit Loops floating in the bubbles,' she said, 'and I laughed!'.... "

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In his poem, "Honey" Fred recalls a trip to his doctor's office, especially his encounter with the secretary. 'The plump young secretary at the doctor's office calls me "Honey" when I come for my monthly shot of "Johnny Walker red" (B-12 to the unhip.) I smile as an old graybeard is expected to do, but a part of that smile eludes her - for she does not know that I still view all women through the X-ray eyes of imagination.'

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