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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/21123/
- Published: 2011-09-13T07:37:13.000Z
- Updated: 2011-09-13T07:37:13.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Detroit Poetry

I split a couple of bottles of wine with Uncle Verny last night. He lives in Texas, but he grew up in Detroit. In the early 1960s, he worked in a convenience store on Five Mile Road (for those unacquainted with Detroit, everything south of [Eight Mile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%5FMile%5FRoad?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#Racial%5Fand%5Feconomic%5Fdivide) is, well . . . check out that link). He said customers would come in and rhyme, in a distinctive swagger:

"What's the word?  
 "Thunderbird!  
 "What's your joy?  
 "Nature Boy!  
 "What's the price?  
 "44 twice."

Then the customers would buy a bottle or two of low-shelf wine. I thought he was kidding, and he kinda looked at me like, "You think I remember that 50 years later because I dreamt it?"

A good time with Uncle Verny last night. Good man, that V.D. (named "Vernon Duane" by his parents, my father--and his older brother--made sure he understood the import of his initials early in life).