Gone
The show-off Goldbergs went first—the middle of the night and their whole house swallowed up with a crash fit to wake the dead. Friday evening the Duponts’ garage vanished, taking Mr. Dupont’s Porsche that he wouldn’t let his wife drive, and leaving a hole that was nothing but darkness that had a stink all its own.
On Sunday when the Universalist Church at the corner was taken, we knew what it meant, because what sort of a religion is that? Us, we got down on our knees and prayed, and we’re praying still, while all around the earth trembles.
Photo Credit: Michael Gil
Seems like the narrator is being left in hell while the others are being taken to a better place…