Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper with a message for his heavy old sheepskin-lined hunting boots as they come out of the back of the closet to do service on Phyllis’s feet.
Listen up, boots, in your long deer hunting and ice fishing history you have never been called to such honorable service. Forget following deer trails and drilling holes in thick ice as the keeper stumbled through many years of cold weather fun and games. What you are involved in now with Phyllis is serious stuff, about as serious as it gets, and in a sense you will be emblematic of this post’s “Kickass” namesake.
On Phyllis’s feet, boots, you will join the crowd of protesters out on Gammon Road in objecting to government-sponsored ICE agent murderers. Your effectiveness may depend on Phyllis running into an ICE goon and her ability to use you as an effective Kickass addendum.
The keeper is confident that with both his boots and his money on Phyllis she and the Silver Badgers and millions of other outraged Americans are sure to kick hard and high enough to stop in-house murderers and restore basic decency.
Go boots! Go Phyllis!
