TAKE OFF FROM RAY BRADBURY/ CONCERNING THE DEATHS CRIME AND OUR WATER IN CLEVELAND (LAKE ERIE)
Death By Murder: Murky water left to drink floating particles of death. Erie presence leaves discontent. As something wicked floats in it. The bone chilling cold wind doth blow off Lake Erie with flurry snow. Late at night off cold dark shores shadows of a floating barge. Clouds of soot from steamers clogged Pollutes the air with killer smog. When something wicked this way flows poverty on desperate corners pose. Perverts prey on angry streets Homeless children on which they creep. Desperately at the mercy of, as something wicked this way comes Young ones get plucked,like sweet ripe plumbs As something wicked this way comes . Contaminated, where no herbs could purge her Strictly becomes death by murder. Others with blood dripping from lips Every scary thing flung and flipped No caring soul feels to investigate As vampires odors fumigate There's no friend to even extend a stick to beat the bush or defend The evil deeds that ignorance brings desecrates the graves of all good men We make loud noises and pretend; While something evil this way spins. The screams are loud but know one heard her Ignored are cries upon lake Erie's borders Spores that spawn.. these deaths by murder.
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