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Elizabeth Prune
By Joe Pivetti

Elizabeth Prune longed for a moniker Like Eliza or Lizzy or Maybe Betty or Beth But Lizard is what she would get. Ms. rankled Prune is a recovery agent. She started with shopping carts, Worked up to furniture and equipment, Then autos, pick-ups and model home art. A cop pulls her over with a car in tow, He says "the owner's paid what he owes And wants his car back and no jaw." She says "Bub, repossession is nine tenths of the law." Lizard is least prepossessed With voodoo, lucky charms, hexes, Seances and tarot sessions When she's between repossessions. In the paintings and statue recovery union, If a broken limb can be glued back on, A trusted senior member agent Is allowed short term dismemberment. Lizard hasn't been able to unload a V-8 repo That's vibrantly labeled with "General Tsou". It sits in her folks barn, still stuck in reverse; Being chicken and fulfilling the Charger's curse. Lizard's got friends down at the repo company office. When she runs out of jobs she goes face to face With Dilly, the ex-dealer, Bronco, the ex-ranger, And manager Winnie, the ex-sexter of checkers.

Lizard got a job to recover a complete dining room set Where there was the cutest couple that she'd ever met. While offering cookies Ma Kettle said "the check's in the mail" So Lizard said "couch in my truck or you'll be bakin' 'em in jail." Lizard helped snoop out some re-collectable art, And Picasso's Musketeer was close to her heart, Whence she said to a wise guy guardian thug "Move it bub or I'll make you look just like that mug." Tights tattered, a legless Lizard Looked down from a slightly pruned tree to a prized rent-a-dog guard And said "By heck and highwaters, I'm all a flail! And out on a limb tryin' to recover this darn Mr. Tails." Lizard lives in a Mobile home With a couple of 'Bama dogs (One's a mix and one's fearsome). They're named Mutt and Chef Billy-Bob. Lizard visited her folks next door. There was squirrel stew for dinner, Followed by shoo-fly pie, white lightning, TV wrestling and relative in-fighting. When helping to fix a door kicked in by a chum She cast about for a guide but found a jumbled mix. So she wouldn't sidestep getting it plumb She pointed around and asked "jamb it even to which?"