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Postmortem

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Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#436 where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
37 words using the word ‘supine’. Here’s my take.

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Found my wife’s parakeet supine in the freezer. She’s gonna kill me!

Rubbing petrol on its belly worked! The budgie happily flew around the house then suddenly crashed to the floor.

Poor thing ran out of gas.

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37 Words

Nancy’s Notes: When I was a kid, my dad would tell a much more elaborate version of this joke to me and my sister. He made a real production out of it and we loved it. No matter how many times he told the joke, we listened closely with wide eyes. Every time the bird crashed to the floor, we’d yell “What happened to it?” My dad would smile and say “He ran out of gas!” and we’d scream and laugh like we were hearing that joke for the first time. What a great memory.


This is “Parakeet Love”  by The Parakeets

Weekend Writing Prompt #436 – Supine

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28 thoughts on “Postmortem”

  5. My Dad found my budgie on the bottom of the cage one morning, and dosed him up with homemade blackberry wine. He was a very happy bird, but Dad knew there was something wrong so took him to the vet. The vet examined him and told Dad he was drunk! Dad explained what had happened, and it turned out the bird had had a stroke and would never perch again, so at least he went to his maker on a ‘high’.

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