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Yellow Wax Fever
I remember our grammar school parade
with great fondness
Especially Richard Kingman
choking
on a piece of charcoal
The week before his family
planned
to go to Disneyland
He was abducted by an elderly man
and found in a dumpster
miles away
What the whole charcoal thing was about
nobody knew,
but the coroner said it was asphyxiation
by charcoal and ashes
Why the teachers decided to tell us
before the parade
I guess none of us will ever know
I remember the waxy yellow look
of his skin,
his shoulders haunched strangely
in the coffin
He never made it to Disneyland
poor fellow
He never even made it to my mother’s
next
piano lesson
His Disneyland was a June Funeral
under a pine tree
in a beautiful cemetery
Three years later his brother Mickey tried to swim
between two bore holes
in the ice
and drowned in the Clarion River
It was a stupid fraternity prank
His body was found in the Spring
somewhere down
the Allegheny
~/~
Dark Humor At Its Finest
This one was delectable, like a nice hunk of steak done rare.
bananas are the perfect food
for prostitutes
That's how I like my steak
That's how I like my steak too. Cheers Pungus