August 26, 2012

• Snapped

  It was easier to live a life of boredom than dealing
  With the crushing blow that it could all go away with a snap.

  It was a corpse.

  There was nothing surprising in that. Yet they found it and buried it with a direct and noble somberness. Those that bury wait for 'snap' that never came, they just got to watch and it made them old, not just elderly, but old. Those snaps that play in soundtracks that slowly beat in the back of one's mind, until they become too much and you have to disconnect in a way or another.

  This lead weight, he sits, these arms that flail around as they moved him. They couldn't figure out the cause of death, most just assumed it was old age. No autopsy was performed, the county was trying to cut back on expenses and there weren't enough trained coroners in all of Florida to keep up. They had a cermony for Earnest P. Merriweather, but no one showed up.

   

  40. Write a STORY about elderly people coming upon something curious. ( 5 pts)

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