1 by choking in 11 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 12:18 pm ——— when i win the lottery i want my legs amputated and two beautiful peg legs wooden of course Frank Sherlock says it's a very bad idea he says i should reconsider seriously reconsider i want peg legs but he says i'll regret it he might
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from “Sharking of the Birdcage”
what was it you
wanted us to
say after you died
it’s awful without you making sound exist
you said ponder this
but none of us can remember
what now dear please speak up
when quaking became zeal to open
nothing now but a
medieval barking gargoyle
whoever gave you the tambourine shall
be sheriff of my tender zoo
I am not here
I am in the future
where I have always been
please hurry back and forth to
kiss me my ghost
Copyright © 2014 by CAConrad. Used with permission of the author.
Copyright © 2014 by CAConrad. Used with permission of the author.
CAConrad
Born on January 1, 1966, CAConrad describes himself as "the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift."