Pops
One of our annual traditions on Martha's Vineyard are challenge matches of Skee Ball and Air Hockey. So, after dinner nearby, Flo and I made our way up Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs to Ryan's Amusement Center.
Our ferocious games of air hockey drew a crowd of young onlookers and we left the hockey table for them as we moved to Skee Ball -- our real passion.
As we played game after game, we heard the encouraging cheers behind us. Flo retired after beating her all-time high score, but I played on. I was on a roll. The cheers persisted - now mixed with Flo's voice behind me. Flo's laugh caused me to pause and turn.
She was viewing a video on a spectator's iPhone. It was of me. He posted it somewhere. The title was "Pops Kills It!"
On the heel on several "Sirs" in the past few days, "Pops" settled in slowly.
Well, Pops can still play a mean game of Skee Ball.

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Oh, would some Power give us the gift
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!
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