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Threat THE THREAT HAD COME DOZEN OF TIMES NOW THEY STOOD BEHIND A DO NOT CROSS LINE IN THE YEARS THAT NEVER EXPECTED ANOTHER COLUMBINE SO MANY SIGNALS,SO MANY SIGNS PSYCHOLOGISTS PISSED AT NOT SEEING THE SIGNS ON TIME WISHING IT HAD COME BEFORE THERE EYES AS BY SOMETHING DIVINE EVERYONE SEEMED SO SHOCKED AND LOST JOCKS FELT LIKE CRAP LAUGHTER, WE WERE JUST HORSING AROUND NOW BODIES LAY ON THE GROUND PARENTS BRUSHED IT OFF HE'S JUST ACTING OUT BODIES IN BODY BAGS WHO'S ACTING NOW WHO? WHAT? WHERE? AND hOW? THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN WHY THEY DIDNT BELIEVE EM NO ONE KNOWS DEMONS RELEASED FROM A CAGE FILLED WITH ANGER AND RAGE WAS NEVER ON THE SAME PAGE CALMN AND COLLECTIVE TO AN UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE AFTER A WHILE THE BRUISES BECAME COMMONPLACE THE ANTICIPATION WAS MORE PAINFUL WHEN THE ACTAUL VIOLENCE CAME HE JUST COVERED HIS FACE CALL IT TRAGEDY. CALL IT RUTHLESS. CALL IT REVENGE MISLED YOUTH CONTEMPLATION FROM SUICIDE TO HOMICIDE GOT ROOKIE COPS HOLDING THEIR INSIDES JUST LOOK AT HIS RECORD THEY WOULD SAY NOW THER MOUTHS WERE LEFT OPEN WIDE TEARS START ROLLING AS THEY ROLLOUT THE YELLOW TAPE LAST GOODBYES. LAST FAREWELLS ESCAPE FROM A LIVING HELL A LIVING NIGHTMARE EVEN GOT THE DEVIL FIGHTING BACK TEARS MANY FUNERALS CAME THAT DAY THE KILLER RAY. THE VICTIMS GOT MEMORIALS RAY GOT EDITORIALS THE REPORTERS CALLED HIM A MONSTER HIS FAMILY CALLED HIM THEIR CHILD NO TRIALS. SO FILE. WORDS COME FAST FROM THEIR MOUTHS LIKE AN AUTOMATIC GOT THEM BREATHING HARD LIKE ASTHMATICS MORE WORK FOR THE PARAMEDICS TH THREAT HAD COME THE THREAT WAS REVEALED THE THREAT WAS SADLY TRUE 16 DEATHS 16 BULLETS ROOKIES SWEATING BULLETS SILENCE NEVER SEEMED SO LOUD

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