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Weather Person

from Forgotten Forever by Ceschi

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13. Weather Person
(produced by Deadpan Darling
cuts by Creative )

Once I wrote a poem about a weather person in New Jersey who blew his brains out while on camera. Some may know - I was born in New Jersey - don't have many memories of the place but for some reason I couldn't stop visualizing this story. I'm not certain if the story had some basis in reality or if it was completely made up. Around 2006 while I was working on the long lost Deadpan Darling project with Blue Sky Black Death I decided that I would elaborate on that poem and make it a complete song. As some may know - the hard drive that contained a majority of finalized Deadpan Darling songs was corrupted beyond return. Still feel that a lot of these songs should be heard some day!

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I wonder what the weather person said
when he put a 9 millimeter right to his head
with a tear in his eye
live on channel 5
on that night
when the climate
didn't follow any lines....
was he calling out God?
was he calling out mom?
was he calling for the love of his life
when they turned off his mic
in a minute
when they switched over
to the anchor woman....
man it could have been a death fest
when he shot a bullet right into the front desk
but he missed
rather quick
with the slip of his wrist
so he put it in his lips
and he hit
and the blood
and the blood
and the blood was too much
as it painted the yellowish studio walls
with a crimson collage
and the screams
and the screams
and the screams were too loud
as they doubled and tripled and sounded like killing of animals and crowds
when they finally calmed down
there was silence everywhere
and corpse on the floor lay completely still
but its smell was in the air
then janitors came
then ambulance came
then police
and they noticed it was raining outside
but the weatherman guaranteed it was gonna be sunny
and they hated to laugh
but the truth is sometimes rather funny
so they chuckled while they carried this mangled man to the mortuary
and the graphics department started to make a banner for him
which said 1957 to 2000 and four and
it was ugly
it was boring
forgettable
it was bullshit
it was probably exactly what the weatherman had predicted.

I wonder what the weather person said
when he put a 9 millimeter right to his head?

and the funeral...
closed casket...
with an etched weather vain
on the tombstone
"oh my GOD!!!!!"
cried the widow in a black vail
looking like she wasn't gonna make it through the ceremony
GOD
muttered the priest..
rest in peace...
the deceased
was once good
but he committed a sin...
the kids yawned
in the midst of their mother's suffering sobs
they knew about death
it's exactly what happened to their puppy dog
but their daddy went to heaven
or did he?
or was he down with the devil?
was daddy in limbo
with the rest of the babies that mommy aborted?
don't worry kids
daddy's on a cloud with santa claus
and barney and dumbo
and blue's clues
and a pokemon...
daddy's on tivo...
and daddy's inside of your heart and your soul
no daddy's not evil
it was an accident
they were told....

wonder what the weather person said?

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from Forgotten Forever, released January 1, 2022
produced by Deadpan Darling w/ cuts by DJ Creative

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