A Friend of a Friend

A friend of a friend swallowed a boiling dumpling and died of throat disease
A friend of a friend lived with three other women in a house in Baltimore that rented for $200
A friend of a friend took a bottle of Prell to bed, groaned all night, thinking it was liquor
A friend of a friend is always in some hapless shit
Backstroke in good luck or stretched out on the devil’s work bench


A friend of a friend’s penis tapered like an anteater’s nose but that was no problem
A friend of a friend fizzed momentarily in a motel jacuzzi with a serial killer
A friend of a friend perished in Jonestown
But another friend of a friend joined a cult that grows organic vegetables, no big deal
A friend of a friend rolled over and smothered their sleeping infant
A friend of a friend counted to three and the bullet just grazed his left cheek
A friend of a friend lost her scalp to farm equipment, now wears a wig
A friend of a friend is rewriting the dictionary with their true meanings


A friend of a friend stroked out, went from blonde to brunette overnight
A friend of a friend married another friend of a friend and made babies
A friend of a friend huffing on the stairs realized he was a ‘frail elderly’
A friend of a friend put everything he owned on craigslist then vanished
Terrible things! Wonderful things! Things made real in this life
By the friends of friends, those monstrous, worldly beings