The Corduroy Mtn. Mrs. Van Pelt's Class is Not Coming to the Assembly Ben Segal A Allison's all covered already in those black and purple welts that make you fear her father. That girl's got the reasons so nobody bothered to ask why. The how is she buried herself alive and left a note we didn't need to read. Willie got told his mouth was too big for his head one too many times, so he just opened up. He ratcheted that jaw right open & mawing wide. He wrapped his upper lip right over the back of his little head and kept going, kept pulling back his front teeth 'til they came up square against his bottom ones. What a clattering! What a clattering they made! Those teeth of his racketing on and on like a sewing circle. Melissa's mother fed her piecemeal to the wolves until she was nothing left but a concept. Well, a concept hasn't got much in the way of meat, so those hungry wolves ate her mother too. Darryl had his bones removed one by one and replaced them all with electric eels. Boy could Darryl dance then! Til them eels stung him death, then he flopped around the floor like a third-rate break dancer. Then them eels died too. All those other children are only xeroxes, cut out real careful from their cardstock and pasted up in their chairs. Mrs. VP, she does their homework every night in 20 different hand-writings. Well, so none of them have to get held back. But come on, they're not about to walk to any auditorium! And Mrs. Van Pelt, her arms would just get tired out carrying them. previous | next Added to The Corduroy Mtn. on May the Fifth in the year Two Thousand and Nine.