Reward by David Bart

Here lies Pizza the sweetest boy who ever lived Buddha Taboo Mischief on marble stone Silhouette and Lambchop in a family plot semper fi Toy Boy Dynamite you broke our hearts Pepper taught me to walk again grave marked with a cement bird bath and gold tennis trophy Precious Hill was raised up if tears could build a stairway epitaph stenciled on a yard sale sign Mister Bandit mixed breed Christmas Snow in a section just for cats Chigger full-blooded chihuahua a greater voice than mine called Wowee come home plots are now available between U-Store-It and Truck Driver Safety School we know he understood written in black magic marker on the sandwich bag wrapping our blue parakeet placed in the green dumpster beyond these gates.

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