//------------------------------// // The Family Business // Story: What I Did For Summer Vacation // by Typewrittensoul //------------------------------// Rocks. Rocks. The rocks are all I have. To play with. To work with. Says so my mom and dad. Stones. Stones. Leave no stones unturned. I nudge them. I pile them. No better living earned. Crack. Crack. Goes pa with the pick axe. To break the rocks and stones too big for ma and me, his daughters three, that makes his girls a total four, with strength we lack but still we crack and never slack off will we stack the stones, rocks, boulders, on our shoulders, granite, wackestone, together, alone; shale, marl, flint, and those that glint, and those still dull, 'cause on my farm I've seen them all, the blues, greens, reds, though mostly greys, we farm them all farm everyday just rocks and stones we'd crack and knock as pa would say, it's "in our bones." Rocks. Stones. Crack. Crack.