Someone had poured kerosene over the graveyard. The next day, it was in flames. The day after, so was the country.
As Big Obesity lobbied against the act, which now included bridges and railroads, large men and women around the country armed themselves with guns and Lipitor.
A news crew came to cover the event, setting up HQ at the graveyard. They put camera tripods over the dirt until the Earth was a waffle of children’s corpses.
They gathered around the new graveyard, planted, and wept. It was a reelection year. A charismatic congressman said he wanted to bar obese men from balconies.
Without a balcony to support him, the morbidly obese man fell downward, his shadowing encompassing a larger and larger quantity of unaware children.
