*And then, I am finally free from house arrest
- Which is better news for me than it is for you and your family*
...I am bloodletting
All of my frustration
With a wee-bit
Of Danbert Nobacon...
...This is what usually happens:
Whenever someone listens
To the "Unfairy Tale" LP
Backwards
While sensually drunk
On homemade LSD...
?...This is also how
I mistakenly met
George Harrison
And Graham Chapman
While undertaking
My most recently failed suicide attempt....
...And both they, and Lenny Bruce agreed:
I probably should have aimed to succeed
If I really wanted anybody
To ever take my career in comedy
Any more seriously
Than my 'highly-underrated'
Criminal record...
"...Whatever..." I calmly stated
Before soundly adding
For all intents and purposes:
"Everyone always neglects to mention:
My criminal record
Has already gone
Triple platinum
In Japan and Sudan"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She felt the damp
twisted sheets
around her neck,
tangled, tightening,
a bit mangled,
but capable of the strangle,
and she tried to be still,
for a brief moment,
she listen to past melodies in her mind,
simply divine,
her anger slowly shifted,
then she felt a burden had been lifted,
she’d forgotten momentarily,
that was she gravely ill,
left to die slowly, but certain,
pulled down shades, and drawn curtains,
and for all intents and purposes,
she was alive only for her family’s sake,
they needed comfort in her living,
thinking about that kept her awake,
she needed comfort in her death,
that’s something they couldn’t take,
they thought keeping her alive was love,
as the sheets dangled slowly from above,
death finally whispering in her ear,
the sheets got tighter,
she felt lighter,
then she witnessed her astral body in mid-air,
it helped wash away the worries,
and it eliminated the fear.
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