Main idea and subject verb
UNBURIED
I LIVE IN WHAT my family
wife and i like to think of as a safe neighborhood.
Recent, however, at a house just up the street, I have noticed disturbing
evidence of possible criminal activity, or at the very least, a violation of
local zoning laws. What stopped me short one morning as i was walking our dog
was the sight of a “human” corpse smashed up againts the front of this house. I
put the word in quotation marks because i’m not quite sure to what category the
poor dead creature belongs.
It was as flat as a
pancake and had evidently hit the house at a high rate of speed.
To me, it appeared to be a witch. Among the seasonal decorations at the house –
a plastic pumpkin , a sheaf of indian corn, a silhouette of a black cat arching
its back- this grisl, flatened body, with a witch’s hat still in place and a
broom also stuck to the siding, sent a shudder of revolusion mixed with pity
down my spine. One could picture the accident all too clearly. A young witch,
hardly more than a child, is flying too fast on her broom, then : crash ! the
little arms outstretched on either side, the green fingers spread in a hopeless
last minute attempt to soften the impact, were enough to break your heart.
The negligence of the
homeowner was ll the more shocking because he (or she) happened to have a
cemetery in the front yard. Small, gray, palstic tombstones
announced that the frankenstein, Dracula, and the wolf man were all
interred there. Surely it would not be
too much to hope that the unlucky little witch be given a decent burial as
well, even if she was not a celebrity.
One of the mourners who was visiting
the cemetary, a lanky young fellow who wore a hockey mask and carried a chainsaw,
stood unmoving, as if in shock, beside the wolf man’s grave . “ Did you know
him?” i asked quitely. The
grief-stricken fellow did not reply.
A troubling detail about the grave
of Dracula caught my eye. It was a
skeletal arm reaching out of the wellmanicured lawn. If dracula had in fact
been buried alive, as the skeleton arm seemed to suggest, that made a certain
amount of unfortunate sense; when you spend your days lying in a coffin, you do
run the risk of this kind of mixup. But how did no one see the arm waving in
the air after it had laboriously burst throught the sod ? and why was it
ignored, waving and waving, ever more slowly, until death finally arrived,
blessedly, for the supposedly deathless vampire ? Rigor mortis then set in,
followed by weeks and months of rot and decay and scavenging by local animals
until the bones of the arm were all that remained. What kind of clueless home
owners could fail to notice such a hideous process taking place on their own
front lawn ?
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I
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Think
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Me
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Walking
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1
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Put
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It
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Hit
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To me
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To be
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It
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Sent
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A young witch
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Flying
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The little arms
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break
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The negligence
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to have
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Small, gray, palstic tombstones
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announced
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It
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Hope
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One of the mourners
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Wore
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A lanky young
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Carried a chainsaw, stood unmoving
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I
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Asked
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Dracula
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Buried
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You
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Spend
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The arm
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Waving
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Rigor Mortis
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rot and decay
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Home owners
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Taking
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The main idea = The word bold
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