A Macabre Mourning

An Animal Cemetery Built By A Princess

On a golden Tuesday evening

Upon my home returning

My hungry stomach within me burning

I arrived in the backyard- biking

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What’s that you say?

Isn’t your bike dead, the errant knave? (See Of Biking and Biffing)

Why, no. He lives though worse for the wear

His chain ever falling, tires bent but without a tear

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After returning the errant knave to it’s native lean

Out of the corner of my eye I saw two large flies on the trampoline

On closer examination they were enjoying a cuisine

A dead bat, face up, was no longer a flying radar machine

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This wasn’t like the time people thought I was born and raised in the Cult of Kthulu

Nay, I speak the truth –

Come and see, you and our youth

No, thanks — spoke the Redditor in blue.

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Confirming w/ wife and children

No one had a desire to prepare said find in a cauldron

Out we went, the kids and I

To douse our find in hydrogen peroxide

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Little princess moved our deceased friend

Across the yard to join the deer skeleton

Prince Patrick and I found it while feeding baby goslings

Our exploratory findings didn’t interrupt their jostlings

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Three bunnies bothered by the bat’s arrival

Held very still — thinking that will help their survival

More hydrogen peroxide was sprayed on the deer cartilage, spinal

As we discussed verses for the funeral to use, from the Bible

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Truly the princess built an Animal (not pet) cemetery,

From which soothing songs shall be sang in tones funerary

Our somewhat grieving souls to soothe

Snowstorm I and II shall not be moved.

(Our pet bunnies in our pet cemetery on the other side of the backyard.)

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At the duck pond not far from home,

There are now 7 baby ducks with their duckly mom

There were originally nine — two have gone

To Duckling Heaven

Where they’ll wait for their siblings, seven.

In years past we’ve seem 3 duck families, one with children, eleven

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Methought back a few summers hence

When horshoe crabs washed up beyong the buoy fence

At Rehoboth Beach not but two hours from whence

Exquisite souveniers I took home for a grand total of zero cents

The smell though made my wife and kids wonder if I had any common sense

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But wait — a celestial party has been scheduled!

Our animal cemetery might need to be disinterred

Though now the remains are above ground

We shall find another home where they shall sleep sound.

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It is said, Nature reflects our chosen path

And life brings to us what sent out we hath

It isn’t hard then to do the math

Let us choose peace instead of wrath.