Grover’s Lament

A true story as reported to me by Grover

Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash

When I was a boy, back in the 1950s, I thought I would live a charmed life. I used to love fishing, skipping stones across the creek, helping my poor momma empty the buckets from our indoor latrine. I went to school. My teachers thought I was smart, and they used to call me “their little darling.”