I RESEMBLE THOSE REMARX

Now and then when I'm working in the weeds behind my house I'll brush up against some poison ivy but it doesn't bother me too much unless I make full contact. Occasionally I'll do something more rash and blunder into a big bunch of it and end up feeling really stupid. Oddly, the days of endless scratching that follow, although annoying, tend to make me feel really good, especially when I take a hot shower. Scratching those welts is almost like a drug high. I guess it's true what Karl Marx said. "Really itchin' is the opiate of dumb asses."

Gary Hallock