#18

Norbert Schmidt is a German
His dad was a Nazi in WWII
and killed a bunch of people
with pills that turned into bad air

Norbert says
all those dead people
come into his room at night
and it's so crowded
he can hardly breathe
and he has to sing them lullabies till dawn
for them to go away

Norbert's mother drinks beer
and sings Santa Lucia
in the back yard
and his father is in prison somewhere

She feels bad she chose
such a loser for a husband
so she's making a new one
out of lint from the dryer

She's naming him Puffy
and she's making him have
no arms and no mouth