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The Further Adventures of Homeboy

Homeboy Lost His Home

Lions and Tigers and Bears…and Mom..Oh My!

Terry Barr
1 min readSep 24, 2020

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MOMMMMMM! (Author’s photo)

Mom said we saw a bear on our walk, and she got scared. So when we got home, this is what she did.

But it’s MY house. It’s even got my name on it. It doesn’t say,

“Mom’s House.”

It says,

HOMEBOY.

Or at least I think it does.

And about that bear?

Mom says it looked sorta like me.

So I lose a playmate and my house in one afternoon?

My last questions:

“Why is she smiling?

What else don’t I know?

And what’s for supper?”

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Terry Barr
Terry Barr

Written by Terry Barr

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.

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