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\"Liam-15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We stood at the intersection looking down\u00a0on the body – hit by a bus…how ridiculous!\u00a0 After all the times I’d stopped people on their stupid phone gadgets from walking into traffic…now this?\u00a0 I must have been daydreaming…what an idiot!<\/p>\n

Cars were still swishing through the scene while a small crowd of cynical bystanders gathered to make snarky comments in hushed voices (as if they might offend me).\u00a0 The police arrived to push the crowd away and redirect traffic.\u00a0 One of them walked right through me…uugh!\u00a0 Weird!!\u00a0 I shuddered. My companion just grinned.<\/p>\n

I felt some regret.\u00a0 It was a good body for a middle aged clown.\u00a0 I’d kept it fit and healthy – not too bad looking, either…but now it was broken and mangled.\u00a0 There were scattered bits of gristle and a thick dark liquid splashed across the asphalt.\u00a0 One of my eyes hung by a thread down my cheek and my skull was split wide open like a busted watermelon – but hey,\u00a0 I always wondered what my own brains looked like….Eeeeew!!!…(Cool!)<\/p>\n

My companion stepped over to me with a ‘we should go soon’ attitude.\u00a0 I must say, for a scythe wielding hippy weirdo in a medieval bathrobe, he seemed like a decent chap.\u00a0 He was good enough to give me time to adjust.\u00a0 Finally, with a friendly clap on the shoulder he whispered, “Come along, son.\u00a0 You can’t take it with you…”\u00a0 We turned away and began walking off into the ether.<\/p>\n

“Hey Grim!” I said, “You think I’ll come back as a sea slug or a tapeworm?\u00a0 I hope not…maybe I could be a hockey puck!\u00a0 Yeah!…That’s where all the action is…”\u00a0 He shook his head and rolled his eye sockets.\u00a0 “Hey, can you introduce me to Jesus?\u00a0 No…ELVIS!!!…..Yeaaaah!”<\/p>\n

***My little fiction aside, Liam the Clown did his best work squashed like a bug.\u00a0 Not much of a song-and-dance guy, Liam’s twitchings\u00a0had an artsy aesthetic.\u00a0 Anybody who knows anything about Clowns, knows they’re incredibly hard to kill, so Liam never met Jesus – or Elvis but he and Grim became pretty close.\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We stood at the intersection looking down\u00a0on the body – hit by a bus…how ridiculous!\u00a0 After all the times I’d stopped people on their stupid phone gadgets from walking into traffic…now this?\u00a0 I must have been daydreaming…what an idiot! Cars were still swishing through the scene while a small crowd of cynical bystanders gathered to … Continue reading Can’t take it with you<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[125],"tags":[7,105,128,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}