How Many Murderers Do You Know
How many murderers do I know?
An interesting question
I hope I don’t know any
I know of one who tried.
Got by with an attempted murder at sixteen.
Sealed those records.
Gave him another chance.
Arrested at forty-eight, after stabbing a waitress forty-two times.
I can’t help but wonder how many there were in between.
I did not know him but I did say hello to him once or twice.
He was three years ahead of me in class.
He is the only murderer
that I think I almost
kind of knew.
But didn’t.
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