Death lethres the living.

Always found that funny.

The thing so many fear the most splashed across front pages like tabloid fodder made into

bingeable TV shows to be consumed with a bowl of popcorn.

The subject of videos made by internet personalities will they apply on.

Full face of glam.

Who isn't fascinated by...

The end.

The kid, given the chance, has engraved the nearest stick to poke at something.

You know, some unfortunate animal-hanging lifeless at the roadside.

It's a fairly common impulse, I think, driven by innocent curiosity.

But in my neck of the woods where the skunk ape stinks up the everglades and the Florida

man roams free, some of us know better.

It's sometimes wiser to walk on by and let the dead rest.

You never know when you're gonna run across something like empty shell.

Maybe I think all kids are body-pokers because I was one.

Back when I was young, before the age of electronics, with mothers who had tossed their children

outside and tell them not to come home until supper.

I spent a lot of time walking, scrubbing, and trails near my house with my friends.

It wasn't uncommon to come across the body of some small critter, often a bird or a lizard.

Stomach expanded with heat and trapped gases.

Its eyeballs already eaten by red ants.

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