Today's Zelda's Inferno exercise was pretty open-ended: take something unfunny and write a funny poem, or vice-versa, or write about you relationship with an inanimate object. This is what came out for me...
She died in a bizarre vibrator accident. There was a power surge - what a way to go.
The undertaker couldn't get the grin off the corpse. So her family thought about making it a closed-casket service, but decided that this would raise more questions and speculation.
Her father, her mother, and her sister were speechless, scandalized, mum. They would reveal only that there has been a "mechanical accident". When a family friend who was an attorney asked if there was any sort of legal action pending for negligence, they all shouted in unison, "No! No. It's not...We'd rather...That is...We just want her to rest in peace," and would say no more.
But her cousin, who'd been like a younger sister, was happy to tell a few select family members and friends a few selective details...and in the next few weeks, Toys in Babeland had a run on the BunnyMatic 5000.