Boiled Potatoes & Red Ants

 

 

Henry and Lucia wake up on the 10th floor of La Concha Hotel, the tallest building in Key West. Henry’s excited saying, 

Tennessee Williams slept here, in room 1024, maybe penning The Night of the Iguana, here, I’ve got chicken skin, baby. 

Ground control to Major Tom, Hello Henry, Lucia here, the bug guys are going to take the tent off our house by noon, let's eat breakfast at Pepe’s Cafe

They walk to Pepe’s.

Pepe’s gay Cuban, and he loves Lucia,

darling you’re the most beautiful woman in the world, I’m queer and I want you. Will it be Cubano food kids? 

Yeah, pulled pork, black beans wrapped in a tortilla, a bowl of rice pudding, and coffee.

Pepe pours 3 shots of Cuban rum and Lucia says, 

how's your liver, Chica?  

When the love couple gets home they're shocked to see that their house has disappeared, the cops and the firemen are there, and the bug guys have fled. 

Neighbors, Layla and Zeigred, new immigrants from Slovakia, explain what they saw, 

Yah, yah, she evaporated alright, yah gone in a green cloud. 

A fireman walks up to Henry and Lucia giving his account, 

when we got here there was a burnt area where your house was, forensic's gathering samples of the scorched patch, we’ll let you know.

Last month before the disappearance, a friend, a Skin medicine man known as Red Horn, spent the weekend with Henry and Lucia, drinking tequila and sitting in the sauna for hours, preachifying that their land was spooked with evil spirits.  

Red Horn would set up a pow-wow in the backyard to purify the land, but the couple worried the Native dancing would kill the lawn.

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Forget About William Burroughs, Already.

I’ve written commentaries on most cool modern writers on the lost blog, The Headbangers Ball, including Hemingway.

Earnest Hemingway grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, his father Everest  P. was a  physician, and his mother Grace a piano teacher. 

They were well-respected and loved by most in Oak Park, a conservative community that Frank Lloyd Wright said, 

so many churches for so many good people to go to. 

Hemingway's mother was a known performer and violin player in Oak Park, and she taught her son to play the cello despite his hesitance to learn— though later in life admitting the music lessons contributed to his writing style, why the fuck would that be? 

Hunting, peppering deer, wild birds, squirrels, and possums with shotguns was the name of the game for Earnest and his old man, they blew the shit outta anything coming down the pike. 

The Hemingway family always had food on the table, and plenty often feeding the neighbors.

Some thought Martians had a part in the disappearance of the Lucowski bungalow, one was Chester Bicep, mayor of Key West.

Unbeknown to the press, Mayor Bicep had reported the Lucowski happening to the Air Force and The National Security Association.

Some say  Martians de-materialized and transported the Lucownki house to Mars for a museum exhibit they call, 

Earthbound Humans are Odd.

I’m convinced Martians are as real as you or I, waiting for the right time to show their faces. 

I’m all eyes and ears when it comes to the Martians, they can come and go, colonize, have sex, or dance with humans up to them, but, don't ask me to get out of bed. 

Extraterrestrials eat essential carbs and protein— boiled potatoes, and red ants.

In the end, I’m convinced Martians didn’t bury the Lucowski house in a sinkhole. There's a simple explanation, a Chinaman sucked it through the center of the earth using a hollowed-out bamboo shoot like a straw.