BIRDS OF A FEATHER

[Donovan]

Scabies is a nasty bitch. I caught it once as a teenager from my pop moving us into a variety of utterly scumbag motels to live in. Funny story: both my little brother and I got a case of it, my mother figured it out when we went to stay with her and went to the doctor for some of that Kwell lotion. Around the same time my little brother opted to go back to Pop's care and I stayed behind because I was fully engaged in teen rebellion so I was running the streets. I took one dose of the kwell stuff and the scabies cleared up; my brother complained over the phone he wasn't getting rid of it no matter what they tried.

Fast forward several weeks, my criminal training comes to a disastrous end and I am forced to vacate town, so I go back to Pop's quarters only to find my brother is STILL fighting these scabies, even though my pop is smearing the kwell lotion on him daily. Also, my brother says, the kwell lotion is so sticky and nasty he hates the whole process. Now I'm thinking I don't remember the stuff being that bad at all, so I ask to see the bottle.

Come to find out, Pop's nearsighted self has been smothering my brother in some leftover strep cough syrup for weeks. Didn't do a damn thing for the scabies except cure all their tiny little sore throats hahahahaha. My baby brother had the healthiest scabies in Kansas...