“Destination Wedding” by Nolcha Fox

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Worry and Misery meet at a funeral and fall in love. Misery proposes, and asks Sleepless Nights to plan the wedding. Sleepless Nights agrees to it, she needs a distraction after setting fire to her kitchen for the third time while watching the Cooking Channel. She suggests a gala destination wedding, perhaps a nuclear meltdown, a volcanic eruption, a plane crash, something to remember. Why not invite the entire world? Everybody knows Worry and Misery. 

Worry and Misery are overwhelmed with choices. Location. Invitations. Seating arrangements. Flowers. Food. Worry steals Misery’s credit cards and goes shopping. Misery drinks all the booze in every bar in the world, ending up with a chronic case of the midnight munchies. They drain their investment accounts, their bank accounts, their trust funds.

Sleepless Nights finally suggests downsizing to the local nursing home. The venue, coffee, and flowers are free, the residents can’t remember where to sit, and they forget to eat.

Worry and Misery bicker. Both of them get bigger and heavier from stress and sampling the food at all the different venues. They outgrow gowns and tuxes multiple times. Sleepless Nights can’t stand all the crying and complaining. She tosses her cell phone and opens a culinary school in Alaska.

Mentally ill and destitute, Worry and Misery finally agree on the nursing home. Too late. All the guests are dead.

Copyright © 2023 Nolcha Fox

Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net. Nominee for 2024 Best of the Net Anthology. Editor for Open Arts Forum, Chewers & Masticadores, Garden of Neuro.

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