[stylist] Back to Writing? Obituaries?

Tue Aug 25 04:23:34 UTC 2015

Jackie, I failed to say that I was commenting on your bizarre obituary for
yourself, not the poems.
I like your mom's poem, it gets the point across nicely. But I really like
your poem. It gives options for everyone.
I see where you get your talent. Mama Donnafred is very proud, I am sure.
Blessed Be.
Eve

 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
Member, Slate & Style Editing Team
Editor, Tapestry, a TAWN publication
"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I really liked your obituary that you did for yourself.
> Just wondering, where did you get the name Donnafred from? At first I
> wasn't sure of the gender of that name-Fred being a boy-but I guess if
> Winnifred is a girl, Donnafred would be also.
> What a sad name to be branded with.  I like Donna on its own, and I called
> the father in the stories I was writing about earlier Fred, but not
> together.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: EvaMarie Sanchez via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
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> Date sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:37:20 -0700
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>
> 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.
>
> President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
> President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
> Member, Slate & Style Editing Team
> Editor, Tapestry, a TAWN publication
> "You do not need to have vision to see the stars."
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
>
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