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One out of eight deaths occurring in the home
or on picnics
is impalement-related. Four
thousand and eleven people die
in home accidents in the USA each year (on average over the past decade) so
that means approx. 501.34 people die
of home impalements each year.
Two hundred and eighty-seven people die on picnics
each year in the USA, therefore, 35.85 (one does not
round off human beings!) people die
by impalement
on picnics, mostly by fork, but many more than one might expect
by toothpick, particularly
in the NE region of the country.
The denotative: sharp object
enters into one part of body
and, sometimes, emerges from another part of body, often,
though not always, ending in expiration.
One loves
the exceptions: he who lives with the shaft of a golf club
skewering his neck
and learns to walk sideways through doors, she who lives
with a long sliver of ice, ever unmelting,
in her chest.
The home
is a bruised and burning place
and in it lives a worm,
and the picnic, the picnic
is eating on the ground
as monkeys do
when they are not eating in their trees.
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