Nathaniel Rounds
	Kingdom of Fez (Ruins) 1. Half past four/ Walking out the door/ Gonna sell a diamond And a '57 Ford. Oh, money…. 2. That's daddy striding waving smiling goodbye into the bicentennial parade tambourine and baton Pinto wagon papier-mâché float Budweiser blanket spread out on the hill and in the persistence of memory/ mid-jump/ I unsnap my parachute waiting for peace to bleed through 3. Jumped out of bed in my burning pajamas/ Swam a roaring river and jumped a train/ In six months time I might poke around in Eden/ In six months time I might be dead again 4. POETRY KILLS PACKAGED IN A FACILITY THAT PROCESSES EGGS, WALNUTS, AND PEANUTS. Pain/Tome 5 And Zachery Snowfield the Incredible Breathing Speed Dancer who earned twenty six dollars every two weeks mopping the floor in a portrait studio took a job in a shipyard in Kittery, Maine. He signed on to a ship and was returning from Havana when a storm blew him off the mainstay and into shark infested waters. A sharp-eyed deck hand threw him a lifeline. Zach thanked him with a boot to the head. "There's a mermaid out there," he growled. "Name is Vonny Hedlund. She was writing down her phone number and everything. Best thing that ever happened to me and you had to mess it up." He was reunited with her on a second trip and they got married in Walled Lake, Michegan during a Hewett Theater dance marathon contest. They were team no. 6 3/4. The sailor groom and his mermaid bride would go on to win thirty-two contests across the country until they were banned from nationals on account of Vonny's fish tail. Their wedding cake was ten feet tall, 850 pounds and required 2500 spectators to help eat it. No further events are recorded until thirty-six years later when Zach was killed in an electrical fire at the Transcontinental Toe & Heel Tap factory. A Harrington rod implant correcting his scoliosis was retrieved from the ruins and used to identify his remains. Vonny was left penniless and took a cleaning job in a tuna fish cannery near Gate 5 on San Francisco Bay.