How to Mend a Broken Heart
Pop a really big bowl of popcorn.
Don’t think of calories.
Just ignore the old maids in the bottom––
this is not a fortune-telling experience.
Lots of butter.
Locate chocolate.
If none is to be found,
there is likely a 7-11 within driving distance
no matter where you happen to be.
Get the biggest bar.
A bite of popcorn, then a bite of chocolate.
Locate an old Ma and Pa Kettle movie somewhere online and watch it.
Ma Kettle is you in ten years if your love affair had worked out.
Pa Kettle is who your lover would have turned into.
Find an old Sophia Loren movie online and watch it.
Sophia Loren is who you are now.
Don’t worry about the popcorn.
Sophia Loren wouldn’t.
Imagine Paul Newman eating popcorn
off your bare back.
Flip over.
Flash on making love to Pa Kettle.
Quickly flash back to Paul Newman
now eating popcorn off your bare shoulder blade.
Imagine your ex in a movie theater
watching Paul Newman make love to you
up there on the big screen.
Don’t worry about who your ex is with.
Well, maybe just one little peek.
Your ex is with Ma Kettle!
(If you don’t know who Ma and Pa Kettle are, go HERE.)
The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “How?”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Definitely Stream of Consciousness; definitely Ma and Pa Kettle!
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This was a delightful read!
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This is the perfect cure. I haven’t thought of ma and pa Kettle in decades. 🙂
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I loved them. Still do. Need to see a few more shorts.
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I enjoyed this read and thank you for the introduction to Ma and Pa Kettle.
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This takes me back😂
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I think we’ve all been there at least once.Or perhaps you mean the Ma and Pa Kettle part? I’d love to see one of their movies again. They were consummate comedians.
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Disturbingly fun to read, and try to parse!
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Does “try” mean you didn’t succeed???
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LOL! Perfect!
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Thanks, Tiffany.
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Great poem made me laugh 🤣
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We all need laughs!!! Thanks, Willow.
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