TETREAU-KALIFA AFTERPARTY~"A SPLENDID TIME IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL"

The band begins at ten to six
When Mr. K. performs his tricks without a sound
And Mr. H. will demonstrate
Ten summer sets he'll undertake on solid ground
Having been some days in preparation
A splendid time is guaranteed for all
And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill

excerpt from "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"

Lennon/McCartney

Arriving late at the Tetreau-Kalifa home for the swearing in afterparty, I encountered Justice of the Peace candidate Cyndi Hinojosa on her way out, looking more radiant than I'd remembered.

"I've already eaten," I told Jessica Tetreau, as she poured for me a goblet of Italian red and directed me out to the tables in the well-lit backyard.

I quickly noticed a full table with recently-defeated city commissioner candidate Michael Rodriguez seated next to Carlos Marin, the loquacious Chocktaw Jeffrey Duvall, Attorney Rick Zayas, but sat instead at a table with policewoman Diane Garcia, where her husband and I tried to bridge our musical generation gap.(I'm so woefully stuck in the 60's, it's pathetic.)

When my first table evaporated, I moved to another, where I commented on something seldom seen, a chain-link fence along the Resaca's edge, a necessary feature with Tetreau's four kids.

"It will keep me from falling in if I have too many of these," said a lady at the table, holding up a Bud Light in one of those new-fangled aluminum "bottles."

Michael Rodriguez came over and the conversation turned to dog grooming, one of the businesses he owns.  

"I don't advertise," stated Rodriguez, "because we have all the business right now our groomers can handle."

Soon mayoral candidate Charlie Cabler, meekly making the rounds, stopped at our table, saying to me "don't get up," in obvious deference to my advanced age.

Next, I joined Duvall and Zayas, sharing my spiritual experience earlier that evening with Pastor Brad Burke and reciting his Trumpisms.

"How do you think the Shah of Iran would view any agreement or treaty now with the United States?" rhetorically asked Rick Zayas.

"Yes, we've lost total credibility as a country," I added, "unless other countries view this current administration as simply an abberation."

"What about the 14 broken treaties with the Choctaw nation?" chimed in the light-skinned indigenous, Jeff Duvall.