Frederick Zackel

Four Innuendos

“Kurt and Rachel”

The universe accelerates. We grow more distant from each other. Gets harder to see each other’s light. Gets colder.

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Sisyphus lives in the suburbs and mows the lawn.

We all need to be more elastic.

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That June the werewolves came with the fireflies.

They took over the corn fields.

We lost quite a few farmers.

Their tractors in the fields ran out of gas.

Their corpses never were found.

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“Signs of the Apocalypse”

A rare white jaguar

Was struck and killed by a cement truck

And

Heidi Montag has fired her psychic manager.