Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 24, 2017

Wait a sec. The shelf on the left has beans. The shelf on the right is has has-bean have-beens.

But if can empty you no haz beans.

Had beans.

Were beans.

has-beens: a person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.

Endtown’s foragers were here.

hasbean, variation on the spelling of husband

we’re all human beans

Gone with the wind?

The cans on the right have lost their musical fruitiness.

Has not beans!

I can has beanz? (Somehow I don’t envision Cybil saying that – if she wanted them she’d demand not ask.)

Our mother said not to put beans in our ears …

Where are the wanna beans?

There’s gonna be an ill wind a blowin’… and soon!

bean there, done that…

Since Lio doesn’t speak, can he possibly have a regional accent? Can he understand one?

Lio can haz beans?