[stylist] Back to Writing? Obituaries?

[EvaMarie Sanchez]

Jackie, I say this with the utmost of respect and love... You are weird.
hahaha
I really had no idea where this was going at first. It is an interesting
concept and wonder how many will take the challenge. If not your own
obituary, perhaps one of your characters'?
Sounds like some good dank fun.
Eve
Oh, and I think you should have called pest control much sooner.  Eu.

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> All of the last back and forths made me start to write obituaries. Though I
> have four, I am just including a very short poem of my mother's, and
> another
> short one of mine.
> I am also pasting a fictional obituary simply because one of the men in our
> poetry group and I had an ongoing feud about who could write the most
> ridiculous obituary.
> No winner was ever declared.
> So have some fun, or if you wish to continue the religious aspects, this is
> a way you can do so and have it critiqued from the professionals we are,
> and
> not for the content which we might not agree with.
>
> Solution
> Just plant me under a tree
> Environmentally.
> You won't need a casket
> a box or a basket
> for biodegradable me.
>               Donnafred
>
> Obituary
>
> When I am settled down up there
> I'll have myself a holy tear,
> or when I'm fired up down there,
> I'll surely make the Devil care.
>
> But if I'm not invited in
> because of godly grace or sin,
> I'll plant myself in earth with men,
> and grow to bud and bloom again.
>               Jacqueline Williams
>
>
> Obituary                           Jacqueline Williams
> On Oct. 22, Pesky Home Pest Control and Conservation visited the Lee home
> in
> response to a frantic call about the sight of several huge sewer size
> cockroaches. The woman of the house lived alone, and was partially sighted
> but could see big moving black blobs on the white tile in her bathroom. The
> records showed that the entire house was sprayed. On the morning of Oct.
> 24,
> in answer to a Medic-alert flash, the following scenario was surmised about
> the death of said woman. While taking a shower, apparently Miss Lee tried
> to
> bolt from the enclosed space and got tangled in the shower curtain. Her
> weight apparently broke the curtain loose, and she fell within it on her
> back in an oval shaped empty clothes basket near the shower. Her arms and
> legs were sticking straight up from the dark curtain lining the basket, now
> like a shell. In the shower, and again, next to the basket there were two
> huge cockroaches on their backs with their legs sticking straight up. The
> family does not know whether it was a broken neck, or from shock that
> caused
> a heart attack, or whether Miss Lee had an allergic reaction to pest spray.
> It has since been found that the City of Mesa sprayed the sewers in front
> of
> the home area on Oct. 20, causing the cockroaches to make a run for any
> exits, one being the shower of Miss Lee. The strangest aspect is that a
> recording of a Mexican national dance, named "La Cucaracha" was still
> spinning on a player next to the bath, with a cockroach costume laid out on
> the bed. Her sons said it was a favorite dance that she loved to teach her
> students when they needed shaking up a bit. Pesky Home Pest Control and
> Conservation offered to provide food after the service, but the family
> declined. There are no services scheduled as no one could be found to give
> a
> eulogy. It is rumored that the contents of the house, containing many art
> objects and paintings of insects, will be auctioned off. I, as a
> red-blooded
> journalist, have chosen to print this with no byline in spite of a request
> for privacy.
>
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> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
>
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