They opted for the lemonade.
Zed chose suicide.
While they sipped out in the shade
Zed went upstairs and died.

When Alicia removed her blouse
her friends cheered loud for more.
Meanwhile upstairs in the house
Zed drained upon the floor.

Skip flipped off his skateboard
and fractured his left hip.
Nick rushed him to the clinic.
Zed could only drip.

Alfredo got a job at Jack’s.
Leonard sailed to France.
Sandy swilled hard lemonade
and finally wet her pants.

Manuel robbed a Mayan tomb
and shared everything he got.
Jane robbed 1st national
and never did get caught.

I saw Ernest up on Everest,
his hair as wild as wind.
Nancy gave birth to two.
Jane robbed the bank again.

Derek wrote bad poetry
about the sorrow of his lot.
Flower went back to the land.
Zed began to rot.

Juan disappear in Guatemala.
Henry had a heart attack,
and all they found of Francis
were slippers by the track.

Everyone in the family—
Clairese, Carl and Pat and John—
set fire to their savings
and laughed when it was gone.

Huxley walked beside the river;
he did that every day.
We’ll never know what he saw
because he did not say.

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