Mama said....

Mama told me not to hook up with Cletus. She said he was all wrong for me. She told me to find me a "good" man and not a "chipped tooth loser" like Cletus. She is just jealous I gots me a man. She aint got none. No one wants to be her man. She's nasty. Always farting greasy nasty smells. She just sits there all day picking scabs and bitchin' about congress this and president that. Ugh, gets on my nerves. But Cletus is a sophisticated man. He has been around the world. He made something of himself. He left home at 17 for the Navy. He saw the world, he did. He even knows a few words in other languages. He can say "grassy-ass" and "Dee-nada." He told me deenada means somrthing like "I don't need nada" ya know, no more. He is going to college too. He said he is going to be a business man. He said wes gonna be rich someday. I sure hope so, cuz we gots this baby on the way and I would like to move out of mommas house. I been waitin tables at night to pay for his schoolin. He is worth it. Momma doesn't think so. She says he is using me. What does she know?