There Kevin stood with the ax. The ax that only yesterday had slipped from his father's hands to slice his own leg in two. And there was the puddle of blood that had thrown Kevin's mother into a hysterical frenzy, causing her to thrust both her hands down the garbage disposal while it was on. Kevin knew that if his mother hadn't done that his father would have been taken to the hospital in time. Kevin called the ambulance, but by the time they arrived both parents had been deprived of oxygen for too long. Of course they could be saved, but all of their limbs would have to be amputated and their total IQ would never exceed 42.

Although Kevin was out shooting kittens with his rifle while it happends, he knew it was all his fault as he ate a box of rat poison and slowly passed away in the front yard.
 

(Anonymous, "Dead End Dada", Young Adults, New York: Tom Dorerty, 1985)
 
 

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