I'll take a tall glass of whatever you're selling

He's a patriarch

a temple recorder

a lemonade drinker

a Kool Aid connoisseur

I listen as my budding entrepreneurs

report their earnings

and smile as they tell me

he was the first to pull over

to their road side stand

Of course he was

Just as he was the first to support

every other stand they've had over the past 8 years

these days

we never pass up the chance 

to pull over

and pay 25 cents for

5 ounces of luke warm summer happiness

our way of saying thank you