“Bye-Good” Late October Third Sunday Write

Absurdity maybe? Think perhaps of an Ionesco play — or else something else. A playing in words? In any event, it was time for the Bloomington Writers Guild’s Third Sunday Write (cf. September 28, et al.), never exactly on “calendar time” — and whose fault doesn’t matter — we know how that goes. What is is what is, yes?

So anyway October offered three prompts, and my choice was the third: 3. Begin with “Goodbye…” And this is my “answer”:

Goodbye yourself, what’s good about it? Why not bye-good — buy good? By God? Or why would one buy bad (by god or devil), or buy mediocre? On the shelves of Kroger. . .

But by deity, I think I’ll still buy good. That is, if there’s any left to be had. Isn’t my money good? Or, on the exchange, is it a good buy — that is by the pound, with a new prime minister mucking things up there? This side of the pond we pay for a President to do us wrong, thank you!

Or maybe do right. . . .

So buy good and goodbye.

As many may know, “Kroger” is a large supermarket chain — as well as where I buy my groceries. But, likely still fallout from COVID-19, some shelves sometimes are empty. And that has nothing to do with the citation of Kroger above. Rather, it’s for the almost but not-quite rhyme with “mediocre.”

You heard that first here.