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The Most Awkward Funeral Ever

February 2, 2011 1 Comment

By Johnson Nebraska

My existence began as two entities; one sperm and one egg. They met in
clandestine passion, conspired secretly to create a life, and I became a
zygote. Then, not so soon after, I was an embryo. And then, after laboring
for 33 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds, I was expelled from my mothers’
cavernous belly into this world.

It seems only fitting that I am dying much the same way I was brought into
the world; with my head and neck firmly lodged inside of a woman’s vagina.

Fuck, I’m never going to hear the end of this in Heaven.

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  1. Bruno says

    July 21, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    Maybe an adept of the French Surrealists?

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