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Listening to crap like this makes my hair turn gray.
Today's topic: This Is Your Mind on Substitute Teaching. No Questions.
This morning at 5:45 a.m., while preparing for another brutal day of substitute teaching, I had the following dialogue with myself.
Bear with me. This is not your typical navel-gazing blog.
God, look at that zit. I am way too old to have pimples. There's no amount of makeup that will cover this volcano! How old do you have to be before you don't get pimples anymore?
I guess I'll have zits on my face when I die. The undertaker will say, "Damn, there's nothing I can do to cover that! Close the casket!"
Well, that's just stupid, because I want to be scorched to ashes anyway. Won't see the zits then.
Unless I can get that Native American burial I've always dreamed of. Lying dead in the forest, food for the Thunderbirds.
But I'm not ready to die yet, and by the time I am, I won't be able to walk far enough into the forest to commit suicide without being found. In fact, the buzzards will help the authorities find me, and the buzzards will get cheated out of a meal.
That would stink.
Then again, if I hobbled into state forest land and shot myself, the authorities would assume the buzzards were just after a dead possum.
Sounds plausible.
But I don't think I'd have the courage to shoot myself. And starving to death takes too long, and once again cheats the Thunderbirds.
So, opiates or barbituates. The good ol' Oregon method.
But what would that do to the buzzards? If they eat my opiate-saturated brain, will they too OD? Or will they just sit around like William S. Burroughs, wondering why possum doesn't affect them like that?
I mean, how many bites of me could each vulture take? You can sometimes draw as many as 100 to a cow carcass.
Oh, shit. There's no lemon for my tea! It's gonna be a bang-up day, I can see it coming.
And guess what? It was that, and worse.
The moral of this post: If you know an Anne Johnson, I'm sure you hope it's not me.
FROM ANNE
THE PIMPLE-FLECKED MERLIN OF BERKELEY SPRINGS
2 comments:
It must be us.
I don't understand why when we die they have to go through all that bullshit- and something really creeps me about of spending eternity in box- even though I probably won't notice at that point.
Why can't my family just bury in the backyard (no box, please) and let my no-longer-needed body feed a newly planted tree?
Love your pre-SubTeacher thoughts of the day!!
The William Burroughs comment had me on the floor... to funny.
I am with you, just let me be the Food of the Gods (Buzzards) Check your state laws, White Crow, Ol Buzzard and I had this conversation in December as they are so future thinking and want to make things easy on their kids. They found it is Cheaper to die in some states than others,, can't do the pine box in some states,, must be metal???? duh?? I couldn't do the shotgun either,, plus may be too weak to pull the trigger,, so I have my stash of good ol Mother Nature herbs and plants to do the deed if need be... no barbs for me,, just a wonderful peaceful sleep per Nature. The way it should be if the case arises.
But Good for Oregon none the less. I say we should be able to die with dignity.
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