Scenes from a Parade (5/24/88)
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Mar 8, 2021
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All participants should gather beside Central School by 1:00. The order of the parade shall be:
The Unbidden Ox
The East Sheboygan Bugle and Theremin Corps
A tractor pulling a smaller, wheel-less tractor
Future Attic Dwellers of America hay wagon
The mayor’s eunuchs
Baton twirlers, all of whom have been exiled from Idaho
Uncle Throat
Our firefighters and their creamed corn
A dog who can do arithmetic, but not well
The Gibbering All-Dentist Barbershop Quartet
Festival Junior Royalty Court
The ossuaries of Festival Senior Royalty Court
The parade route will end at the doughnut shop beyond the railroad tracks where Lyman found the old hat.