Skipper's Smokehouse--dad on drums. Ruben Rey and the Undercover band. petrified gator foot on a stick as a back scratcher. dad tells Ciro to keep that thing away from him. it is bad juju, with all the time he spends on the little john boat in lakes looking for bass with scarred palates. at the bottom of those lakes, the skeletons of so many poodles. some of them named Phyliss. dad falls asleep in his blue plumpy chair and wakes with a start, saying, "You should've jumpd on that worm."
