The Blurgensens were a
normal family, on a normal
street, in abnormal times.
The youngest Blurgensen
would substitute abysmal
for abnormal. Young H
Blurgensen was not only
cursed with a single letter
for a first name, H ached
in every place that could
be named. Unreasonable
pain cannot be shamed
or tamed into submitting
to the will; the will is the
pill that started it all. The
Blurgensen fall could be
called the coldest autumn
change on record, colder
than a serpent and a garden
that rhymed with garden.