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why, hello unremarkably remarkable one

and how are you today

still breathing are we

ah lovely!

has all that heavy make up that you insist

on wearing got you down

or is it just that your cologne got rubbed

the wrong way

oh, and where is that Big Diamond Ring that

you so often like to strap across your left

hand

the one you could pawn to buy say a small

country with perhaps

has those antidepressants you've been taking

made you glum

just where is Freud when you really need him

I ask

probably out playing golf somewhere with the

likes of Bob Hope or John Davidson no less

so tell me, how's your mother or was it your

mother-in-law

well, anyway you know the one I mean

the one who's at Death's Door with terminal

rectal cancer

has she gotten any better

oh! she's dead

Pity!

not to change the subject but isn't she also

the one I said once reminded me of Shirley Winters

in the movie 'The Poseidon Adventure'

you know that one scene where she has to swim

under water?

oh, the leukemia oops I mean cancer slimmed her

down in the end

you don't say!

well, that's good

at least we know she didn't die from obesity

that must have been a weight off your sagging

shoulders

I mean don't you think?

oh, forgive me! I do apologize

I completely forgot about that condition

you said you have with your minor neurological

functions

anyway, I suppose I had better get back to my

table

before my dinner companion has a cat

so, Ta Ta!

oh, and don't worry

even the teeniest little bit dear

that I'll tear you to shreds in one of my

next 'pathetic little poems'

as you like to call them

won't happen..........................

(Sept. 10, 1994)