Faux

Forget everything you know about the Baltimore Oriole. Likewise, the dark blue Baltimore Catechism sometimes memorized by obedient children listening through the mesh of hard green plastic face front of the transistor radio broadcasting Bruce Saunders, the voice of authority for people of South Bend, some of whom have not seen an oriole or been to Baltimore. Bruce last-named to rhyme with "awe" informed them of tornadoes that lifted his career of cautioning the people to steer clear of faux humility. A sibling ago, he knew things like whose wife quietly drank herself to sleep. 

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