What endures is decency, believe me

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

Society & Culture, Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

I hear people complain about police and city planners and the health care system, but never about firemen or EMTs, and few complain about slow delivery of mail, perhaps because so few people write letters these days. I do and delivery is prompt. This morning I wrote a postcard with a limerick for a new father:Byron is his child’s wiperAnd poop does not make him hyper,He cleans the behindWith a calm focused mindAnd fastens a fresh tiny diaper.A phone text would be eco-friendlier but a written message has the hope of being taped to the fridge, maybe saved in a drawer and 50 years from now the infant’s children will find it and be amused. Fundraising appeals are tossed and paid bills but the little poem about defecation will give pleasure long after I am gone: this is the hope.

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0:58.0	Subscription required for some in-app features. I hear people complain about police and city planners and the health care system,
1:21.0	but I never hear them complain about firemen or EMTs, and few complain
1:28.6	about slow delivery of mail, perhaps because so few people write letters these days. I do and
1:37.7	delivery is prompt. This morning I wrote a postcard with a limerick for a new father.
1:46.0	Byron is his child's wiper and poop does not make him hyper. He cleans the behind with a calm focused mind and fastens a fresh
2:00.3	tiny diaper. A phone text would be eco-friendlier, but a written message has the hope of
2:10.4	being taped to Byron's fridge, maybe saved in a drawer.
2:17.0	And 50 years from now, the tiny infant's children will find it and be amused.
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