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Living In the Shadows

Stabbed in the neck, hammer to the head, cracked ribs, broken jaw, left for dead. Slashes to the face, body in a brace, dumped in the river missing without a trace. Bowled by a truck or even a car, bits of bone and flesh smeared and mangled near and far, Strangled, poisoned even being shot, Poking with a cattle prong, Why? Why not..... Being burnt alive, acid melting your face, Pinged out on junk, attacked with a wheel brace, these are just some............ of the ways someone can kill, why would I make such a list, because they gave me a chill. Living in the shadows, living in fear, this is where paranoia can take you, I know because I was there.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 2/28/2016 9:17:00 AM
MURRAY, Enjoyed the way you expressed every line. Please keep writing, hope to see a new one from you again. LOVE LINDA
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Date: 3/22/2014 12:52:00 AM
Well done... Verlena
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Date: 7/19/2013 9:32:00 PM
Oh yes, I too know paranoia very well. And it does take you to these places. Nice piece. :)
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Date: 7/18/2013 11:11:00 PM
Murray, enjoyed your poem...SKAT
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