Final Thoughts

While strolling through the graveyard the other day, I was drawn, To a host of stones with creative and pithy epitaphs etched thereon! Such flowing poetic verse is deemed worthy of recording for posterity, Due to its peculiarity, sincerity, rarity and macabre hilarity! "Here lies Gus riddled with lead! The high sheriff shot him dead!" "He brewed the finest booze in the county! 'Til a G-man shot him for the bounty!" "From his horse Red was throwed! He was the finest feller we ever knowed!" "His jealous spouse cut short his life! With a twelve-inch butchering knife!" "She slipped on a derelict banana peel! The bump on her noggin failed to heal!" "He failed to slow down and swerve! Lost his nerve and missed the curve!" "If you think this place has no appeal! How the heck do you think I feel?" "Here lies the late bullfighter Umberto! He was fatally gored by el toro!" "Clyde owns this piece of real estate! Or that's what he claims, at any rate!" "Barnstormer Barney has flown the coop! He failed to negotiate an outside loop!" "Cowpoke Pete has bit the dust! From his wild cayuse he was abruptly thrust!" "A slug ended the career of gambler Steve! Seems he had some aces up his sleeve!" "Too much cholesterol is how he met his fate! Docs warned him but 'twas too late!" "She met her doom skating on the ice! Tried to do the triple axel thrice!" "He always enjoyed a nickel cigar! Alas, his flame died out due to too much tar!" "Upon my stone let no bird alight! Should that happen, please clean off the blight!" Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired © All Rights Reserved