Antiques

"Midcentury chair could sell for thousands" declares a headline in the morning paper. Brings to mind a verse from my talkin' blues THE WEST MEETS EAST TALKIN' MISERY BLUES, a show stopper in my performance days.

Now what he had in mind was a chair / I said, Look man, I've been everywhere / I don't plan to sit, I plan to leave / He said, But this chair's 17th century! / I had to laugh. How dumb he think I am, buy an old chair. If I need a chair, I go to Sears & Roebucks. 

I told him that, he just made a face / Said, This chair's broke in the original place! / I said, I don't get the joke / You're trying to sell me a chair and it's broke? / He said, but this chair was broke 300 years ago! I said, Well, we have some slow moving hombres out west but I do believe we'd'a had her fixed by now.