let me get that door for you gramps

i don't know

what came

over me, but when the young punk

held the door open

for me,

and said,

after you gramps, i couldn't

help myself.

i caught the kid

with a left hook and then

followed

up with a right cross,

before finishing him off

with an upper

gut to the midsection.

he went down like a sack

of flour

before his mother

came over and broke it up.

i hovered over him

for a minute or two,

and told him to mind 

his manners.

i then went into the grocery

store to get

my prunes

and oatmeal and some

ointment for my knuckles

that were

bleeding and sore.