Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 25, 2025

… and to be hunted down, apparently

Nothing Gloria does to him should surprise Garrett any more, not after 52 years of marriage.

Garrett keeps a defibrillator in his back pocket.

Gloria is the only one that thinks outside the box.

Completely off subject here, does anyone else wonder what we’re going to lose from GoComics in the up coming change? Or am I the only one who remembers Comic Sherpa?

/// In that box he can’t use ears or eyes.

That makes Garrett a cinch to surprise.

So with no cause to fear,

his wife swatted his rear,

which she told him was swarming with flies.

One woman swat team.

Garrett is in an irritating phase

He tends to spend a good part of his days

Pretending he’s named Jack

In a box as way back

As a kid he walked around in a daze

.

His mom Gwen tends to see his attraction

To boxes as an annoying distraction

She once thought he was cured

As he grew up and matured

But now she sees she must take swift action

.

The comfort that her son takes thus enclosed

Was as agoraphobia diagnosed

And a quick swat to his rear end

Would halt his unhealthy pretend

Or so his child psychologist supposed

If that is Garrett.