Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 08, 2005

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I'm homeworked out, I'm overbooked and now it's Mother's Day. I have to make a card that says what Mom knows anyway, to catalogue and edit to a dozen lines or fewer the long parade of reasons why I'm so indebted to her, to recognize she's stayed with me and largely kept her cool since back when all I did was eat and pee and poop and drool, to note how she survived, no, make that guided my ascension through phases too expensive or undignified to mention. But mention it I must, because a couple industries have built one day in May into a grove of money trees. I'll thank my mom. I'll sacrifice my precious weekend hours, then thank those profiteers who hustle greeting cards and flowers.