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Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War

Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war After extorting pound of flesh lifetime humiliation drummed into captives hammering indelible nightmare no amount of therapy can expunge. Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage dead bodies littered makeshift triage death and destruction exhibit super fresh killing fields, where sally forth set pathmark to abominable gut wrenching ghastly hollow hellscape. Haunting horrid macabre scenes assault, batter, clobber, et cetera the senses death construed as mutual (of Omaha) collateral damage fallout populated by zone of dead bodies littering apocalyptic landscape rendering spooky morbidly fascinating, especially from safe vantage point bajillion miles away whereby yours truly hunched over his Macbook Pro laptop glanced the headlines without further delay aid convoys moving into Gaza Strip a tepid hip hip hooray impossible mission for overactive imagination of artist or writer to capture bedlam and melee, scaring up heavenly sight for grim reaper soirée repository for skull and crossbones as arid (extra dry) winds hasten desiccation whistling repartee (even from afar) faintly resembling mourning of Zalay. Countless hungry ill clad masses beg the question regarding purposefulness of mortal kombat screaming in agony against cutthroat belligerents who gleefully gloat laying waste besieging ship of state and emergency lifeboat senselessly bombing spelling likelihood for peace on earth remote silencing the lambs and yellowthroat! Methinks spouting protestation against loosed strife, courtesy demoniac *****sapiens where talking heads strategize foo fighters pointless exhalation of breath sabotaging, shortchanging, siccing, squashing, subjecting, et cetera innocent bystanders ultimately hastening them/ they to untimely and unfair nasty, shortish and brutal death linkedin to personal choice of deity and attendant religious shibboleth.

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