Jack in the Pulpit
What the hell’s that?
10 min readFeb 24, 2020
“Jack-in-the-Pulpit? What the hell’s that?”
“A flower — grows from a bulb-”
“You’re killing me. All I said was I need to get my mother a plant.
“I’m just saying. Get her a lily or a jack-”
“How about a rose? Everybody knows what that is. You walk in and say, ‘I need a rose,’ and they get it. You ask for jack-in-the-pulpit, they look at you funny.”
“Not in your finer boutiques.”
“You…