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Cliff Notes For a Corpse

This eulogy is just ragged cliff notes to sum up his eighty two years but only the happy tones are used.. not a word about the drinking rages the black and blue children that affair with the babysitter the push down the pregnant stairs. The many sudden clacks and clangs those strange pangs in the darkness- Today- It's only the happy stuff being spewed the wonderful puffs of funeral parlor smoke the fabric of a superhero unveiled but many of us sitting here know the truth he was no superhero- he was a super monster- A complete waste of formaldehyde. So, we wait patiently for this verbal charade to burn itself out.

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Date: 6/13/2020 1:26:00 PM
Oh ths is excellent, I (substitute another more fitting word for love) it. I think of the sigh of relief unspoken but shared by everyone at the wake, "well that's over". xomo
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