"It's Been Two Years"
Part Nine
"The Medicine Spoon"
(C)
"Scramble Up To See"
I
had my first contact... with a medicine spoon... kept in an old New England
sewing stand’s drawer... in an old New England ‘front room’... of an old New
England home... on a very old... old New England ‘street’... in a... very
old... old New England village... when I was
CHASED
by that spoon... in the hand of my mother.
“Symbolic
Icon” “coming after me”... “IT” (the old medicine spoon) QUICKLY came to
be. I... understood its
procurement and ...movement... TOWARD ME... by the sound “IT” made “in another
room”. “Scoot” ...I perfected.
ICON
I understood... IT... perfected.
EVEN
WITH a WHITE SUGAR FILLED “spoonful” SOAKED with... “father john’s” or a...
“doctor brown’s”... I... “scoot”.
Historic... and iconic placement in antiquities, decorative arts and...
fine arts...: It; the medicine
spoon... IS a ‘design form’ of
Old
New England. HOW
YOU
get to YOUR acknowledgement of this foundation value
Is
your problem.
I...
‘am there’ with...; I have nearly a half century of discovery, identification,
inspection, contemplation, gathering, ruminating upon and ‘getting rid of’...
old... medicine spoons I have “FOUND” in ...old New England homes. Therefore “WHY?”... should be easier to
understand IF I, like a dancing bear... “A” to “Z”
Prove
That
it is not
Just
me.
I
will do “A” and then “Z”. YOU
...MAY... fill in the rest... of the individualized letter referenced
‘examples’; the remaining 24 letters... but... I will now direct and remind
that... in this tale... I am AT Cadence’s ‘seated in shed door’ now TWO weeks
ago with...
an...
Old
coin silver teaspoon sticking up-out my shirt pocket to... ‘ask her about’
(Part Eight) so ...YOU... only have to come up with twenty-three ‘examples’.
Do
not worry... if you cannot... I... can.
The
American classic foundation example of a “the medicine spoon”:
I
have already referenced Twain’s TOM SAWYER in this tale (Part Nine [A]) but
now...
“YEAH”...
be you... ALREADY... GOING... “OH NO”?
That’s
right... even the “YOU” “KNOWS” “The Cat and the Pain Killer”. (That’s chapter twelve in the tome) and
for the ‘otherwise’ reader: “I
can’t believe you don’t know that story your such an idiot”. Shortened to ‘go read it you need to’
simple summary... TOM is chased by a ...the medicine spoon... in the hand of
Aunt Polly until he... gets a figure-this-out on... on it (the spoon)... by
faining self-dosing cheerfully when he is actually ‘filling in a crack in the
floor’ using... the medicine spoon... to deploy the medicine... a spoonful at a
time. This all comes to a tumble
down when Tom... doses the cat with the ‘pain killer’ served up in, again,
...the medicine spoon... and: GO
READ IT (the whole book; Adventures of Tom Sawyer).
That
is icon example “A”.
It is, as a foundation example,
very had to beat inclusive of the ORIGINAL EDITION illustrations... TOO.
So....
for I... “I WAS CHASED... and... Tom Sawyer was chased
By
a The Medicine Spoon.
Too.
From
that starting example...
“A”...
There are many... many... many more
examples.
(Including Louisa May)
Throughout
The
history of
Our
U.S.A.
“HOW”
throughout ...the U.S.A. history... is well rolled up tight and
Crammed
By
example “Z”
There
is very little... and very little reason... in American prose... to be able to
‘well roll up tight’ and ‘cram’.
Inappropriate merges with lack of actual physical state to purvey ‘no
opportunity’ to... ‘get away doing that’.
THAT then adapts... to prose pontification... to a ...purveys... that
SHOULD an opportunity present itself... it... SHOULD be seized: That is... it is... the old core of
“There are only opportunities and the seizing of them.”
Fluttering
down like a lone leaf last fall... but actually occurring but a mere five weeks
ago... THIS SPRING (“April 14, 2014”)... and before the ‘two weeks ago’ of
NOW... where I am seated with Cadence ...at her shed doorway... I
“GOT
YOU”:
Example
“Z”:
The
pictorial illustrated cover of “THE NEW YORKER” magazine****
Where
a:
The
hand holds the... The Medicine Spoon... in iconic poise. The other hand holds the ...medicine
bottle... in ...iconic poise reminiscent of TOM dosing the CAT...; an
‘illustration’ it is... too. WHO
holds those icons to DOSE WHO WHY WHEN WHERE upon the cover
OF
WHAT MAGAZINE?
“WHAT
WEEKS AGO?"
“NO!”
you say.
“YES”
I say and it is
TOO
ALL
Iconic...
symbolism TOO
OF
“The
Medicine Spoon”.
It is disturbing, I know
(understand),
That perturbance
Of
balance
Of
the I... my... ‘get that’ “THIS”;
To
get away with THAT THIS
HERE...
for such a simple object
And
its ownership of
Its
design heritage...
In
old drawers ‘a clutter’
In
an old New England home.
But
I got it, get it.
Roll
it tight
And...
“crammed”
As
example “Z”.
Now
that I have established and supported the iconic (design) heritage of
The
Medicine Spoon
Sticking
up from my shirt pocket
To
be ‘shown’ to Cadence
To...
‘ask about’
To...
verify
My
“Why?”
As
of this ... old New England
Absolution
Of
my SHARED WITH YOU
“One
example of”
“In
an old New England home”...
WE
May
now travel together
With
my self (infatuated?) FEEL
Of
a wholeness... an old New England wholeness
WITHIN
the old New England home
That
dare me to
“Chucked
it out”;
The
new (?) ‘The Medicine Spoon’:
“I have to park
My SUV
At the Box Store.
...By Three”.
If
you are that.
If
you are not
Then
welcome to the ‘how beautiful it is’
To
sit with Cadence in her shed doorway
With
her ruffled self and
Her
kitty
Cats:
Her
wreck upon the rocks
“I
scramble up to see”.
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