Thursday, July 20, 2017
Death and Worse
-Made a comic quartet in college.
-How so?
-Negotiating. Who'd marry whom?
-A settlement reached?
-Well, Cynthia was the pretty fly
in the ointment--why it took
so long.
-Stubborn?
-The opposite. Unrelentingly sweet!
-Uh huh? Met the type. Then one day
she takes the legs out from under
you with a snarky comment that
exposes you to a lifetime of ridicule!
-Not her. Zero defects. She'd turn
the devil himself into an absolute
sweetheart!
-At any rate, the story isn't about
Cynthia turning hard?
-Nor Grace attaining Cynthia's perfection.
-What did happen?
-Died.
-Which?
-Cynthia.
-But how...?
-There's a technical medical term, but...she sweeted herself to death, really.
Mark devastated. Hit the bottle.
-And Grace?
-Practically killed herself to become
as Cynthia!
-Did she?
-Got close. But as Fate would have it,
a monster entered! Still prevails.
-Namely?
-PMS.
-Not that!
-Happy didn't follow Mark on the Bottle
Trail, but...
-Coped?
-Barely. "It seizeth my waking hours,
and harroweth my nightmare sleep!”
-Very nearly Shakespearian.
-On a bad day, yeah.
Finally...he quoted Kurtz in
Heart of Darkness.
-The horror?
-Yep. Said nothing else after that.
-Some story! I'm shaking!
-Cynthia was well-insured--some
consolation.
-But no firm underwrites PMS.
-Would ruin them!
Labels: college chums, Heart of Darkness, PMS, Shakespeare, sweet disposition
