The Scarecrow Man

over all the other grownups he was around too he was skinny he looked like a scarecrow and a skeleton's love child or something just all gangly limbs with a shock of salt and pepper hair messily strewn across the scalp I remember that specifically he approaches me and asks me which way the highway is and I just pointed back down the street. When he asked me what Santa had brought me that year it was then that he told me that Santa had been extra generous to him and his family that year and had brought his daughter so many presents that she didn't even want them all now my family has always been close knit a loving and generous family with their money they just never had a