Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Muriel who?


[Henry, October 3, 2017.]

Henrietta is not pleased. Muriel probably wouldn’t be pleased either. If Henrietta and Muriel decide that Henry isn’t worth fighting over, they could argue about which girl’s name is more remote for early-twenty-first-century readers.

But Muriel may be a lost love. Perhaps she has left town. If so, and if Henry (whose own name remains popular for early-twenty-first-century newborns) could sing, he might offer these words: “Muriel, since you left town, the clubs closed down, and there’s one more burned-out lamppost on Main Street, down where we used to stroll.” But he can’t.

Related reading
All OCA Henry posts (Pinboard)
Vic loves Muriel / Muriel loves Victor

By Michael Leddy at 8:15 AM

2 comments:

  1. SlywyOctober 04, 2017 5:17 AM

    Muriel makes me think of cigars, which led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7EbLIdE88Q

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  2. Michael LeddyOctober 04, 2017 9:07 AM

    Yes, Edie Adams. The cigar is in Tom Waits’s song.

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