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…When you gets to checking contents of the local loony bin
You’ll find we got more loonies out than we got loonies in…

Monroe D. Underwood

The silver-gray Porsche arrived just short of midnight and I got in.

I said Brandy where the hell have you been?

I said a man could get killed in this goddam insane asylum.

Brandy said sorry Purdue.

She said I rode Lochinvar X. back to the farm.

She said I bought him and made arrangements to have him shipped to Chicago.

She said I was nearly here when I had to stop for Suicide Lewisite.

I said I thought he committed suicide with the American Legion cannon.

Brandy said he missed.

She said the poor man was frightened out of his wits.

I said well he should have been.

I said he leveled the Radish River City Hall and there was a lynch mob on his trail.

Brandy said that wasn’t it.

She said he had just stepped on Zanzibar McStrangle’s toe.

She said I took him down the back streets to the Radish River freight yard and he caught an outbound boxcar.

She said it was full of footballs.