death
Unmitigated Cheer

Violets.
Violets, and roses.
Flowers happy,
flowers bright;
flowers -casket!
flowers DEATH!
deathdeathdeathdeath!
Puppies.
Puppies, frollicking.
Frollicking dogs, big
frollicking -guard dogs?
frollicking DEATH!
deathdeathdeathdeath!
Children.
Children, playing
ball, children playing
happily, happily playing
ball in the -street!
playing ball with DEATH!
deathdeathdeathdeath!
Sunshine. (skin cancer!)
clouds? (depression!)
rain; (suicide!)
high of 85, (cremation!)
low of 40. (hypothermia!)
Outlook cloudy and uncertain.
death.
death, death;
death, death, death.
death: death, death,
death. death-DEATH!
DEATHDEATHDEATHDEATH!

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Posted on 14th February 2010No Comments
The world ends thirteen times consecutively

one heart thirty six and a half years away from scheduled retirement takes early leave
two i’m sorry we can’t see each other anymore
three the sun unexpectedly explodes
four concentrated and constant contamination reduces arable water to flammable sludge
and leaves the summer breeze with the consistency of sandpaper choking the leather
lunged [...]

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Posted on 14th February 2010No Comments
The Grim Reaper Is Lazier Than I Am

What is there worth writing about but lazy death?
So inept, so unpunctual and mixed up.
He came too early, say lovers
or friends who are not in the will
and have not been secretly pondering
where he has been these last humorless years.
Stovepipes, perhaps, or flash photography;
fresh paint or icy slush streaked with exhaust;
the occasional transcendent moment or a [...]

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Posted on 14th February 2010No Comments
The biggest fool in the world

From Letters to the Air Force about UFOs
Dear Sir;
I read your statement about UFO. I do not know if there are an but they could be. All my life I have been trying to understand gravity; about 7 years back I found a key which seemed to fit, about 3 months ago I found how [...]

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Posted on 8th February 2010No Comments
The Princess Bride

MAN IN BLACK
All right: where is the pie? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right and who is dead.

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Posted on 8th February 2010No Comments