He received a package in the mail
from the Bizarre Toys Company.
Perplexed, he didn’t know why he
received a package from a toy company.
He unwrapped the package and saw
a blue box inside it.
He opened the box and found a red
Jack in the Box toy in it.
It brought back fond memories of the
Jack in the Box he played with as a child.
And he wondered who would have known
about his Jack in the Box he had in his childhood.
He gleefully began to crank up the box, excited
to see if the Jack would be like the one he had.
Upon the final crank when the jack popped up,
it had the disturbing face of his sinister ex-wife,
the last image he saw in this world as the
Jack in the Box exploded and blew him to bits.
Bob Boyd