ruth buzzi lay dead on the lawn ruth buzzi, star of rowan & martin’s laugh-in dayglo spinster with a hair net like a spider web on her scalp foil for arte johnson remnant of a comedian lay stiff on the lawn my wife placed her there for decoration she thought it was perfect well it was perfectly disturbing our friends were uncomfortable coming over i reasoned with her "we can’t have kids here" but my wife thought it was a cool garnish to the house she laughed, fixed herself a tito and tonic and plomped down in a chair on the porch admiring the lawn