Dallas Drag queen “Ilene Alloverya” crawled across the floor in the middle of her act to accept a tip. Then, in the grand finale, she stood up, threw out her arms…
And dropped dead of a heart attack.
To the song, “Nobody Does it Like Me.”
I tried not to laugh, I really did. But when my friend Richard called to read me the story in the Dallas Voice, I lost it. The paper’s attempt to stick to the facts just made it all the funnier.
“Well,” Richard said, wiping tears from his laughing jag. “At least she died doing what she loved.”
“Yes,” I said. “On her knees begging for money.”
All deaths are tragic, but some are tragic comedies.