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 TaarofingBy Roger Sedart August 14, 2002 The Iranian Uncle Farhang ringside cracking seeds Wildly cheers"The Fearless Iranian" In the black mask, Come on now, body slam Him champ! spitting shells on the metal seats. The good guy wins. We follow ours back in His dressing room for autographs. He knows My uncle's friend (a coach) and even shows Pictures. Great seeds, he says, watermelon? My Uncle gives his bag away and asks Him to the house. We have to wake my aunt At 3:00 a.m. to cook but then she can't Because the wrestler wants a dozen eggs With bacon (pork is wrong, but mistreating A guest is worse). At the all night Kroger She buys every package of hamburger Meat, fully aware he's never leaving. They feed him forty kabob koobideighs Each night, then let him sit in their bathroom For hours. My cousins, as if to welcome Him out, grin, with both hands on their kidneys. When he decides to leave, my Uncle says Stay three more weeks. And then when he insists, Uncle dumps the fridge into an ice chest, Fishes in his pants' pockets for the keys To his new Ford, (his only way to work), Because the bus is slow. You'll return it In a few months, when you come to visitÖ So he drives off, emitting random sparks From the bumper grating the street, too much Weight in the trunk: potatoes, ground meat, shoes My uncle found "too tight," and slightly used Toys from cousins, who scream, Come back to us!
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