LISA ANN CARNES UNSOLVED MURDER

DEEP SADNESS REMEMERING LISA WALKING INTO THE ARCADE LOOKING FOR CIRO SHE WAS FURIOUS WAITING IN A TRUCK I ASKED DID SHE WANT TO LEAVE A MESSAGE JUST TELL HIM LISA CIRO CAME IN I GAVE HIM THE MESSAGE LISA CAME HE ASSUMED IT WAS HIS WIFE LISA RANTING AND RAVING HE RUSHES HOME AUGUE WITH HIS WIFE THEN RETURN WITH LISA WEARING A FAKE FUR COAT HE SAYS DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO WAIT IN THE TRUCK I GUESS SHE WAS IMPATIENT ALL I KNOW HER GHOST HAUNTS ME SHE WAS FOUND SHOT IN THE BACK BLEEDING NOT FAR FROM ANTIOCH CIRO’S GAMBLING JOINTS WHERE HE COLLECTED QUARTERS ACROSS THE MIDWEST HIS WIFE LISA FINALLY TOLD ME HE SHOT AND KILLED THIS LADY FOR GETTINGNOUT A TRUCK LEAVING HIM I NEVER DREAMED DECADES LATER CIRO NEW GIRL FRIEND WOULD SAY THE EXACT SAME THING I REMEMERED THAT NIGHT MARCH 29TH CIRO AND I DROVE TO PETES PLACE POKER CHIPS WERE EVERYWHERE THE SMELL OF TEAR GAS GLASS THE FEDS HAVE RAIDED ALL HIS BUSINESSES AND BUSINESSES WHERE HE STORED VIDEO GAMES GAMBLING MACHINES SLOTS ODDLY HE KISSED MY CHEEK AS ALWAYS THEN HE TOLD ME HE WAS DRIVING BACK TO ANTIOCH YOU NEVER THINK THIS WOULD EVER MATTER UNTIL IT DOES HER EYES LISA ANN CARNES SHE HAD TWO KIDS SO DID I AT THE TIME MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND DID ERRANDS FOR CIRO SO DID LISA ANN CARNES HUSBAND ERNEST LITTLE BEAVER FRIENDS WITH CIRO SON EAGLE FEATHER OF ANTIOCH I PRAY FOR LISA ANN CARNES ESPECIALLY REALIZING ALL THE ATTEMPTS CIRO MADE ON MY VERY LIFE I AM BLESSED I SURVIVED HOWEVER THERE IS SOMETHING LISA WANTS STANDING ON THE DOORWAY TILTING HER HEAD A BIT WE SHARE SOMETHING PERHAPS HE KISSED HER CHEEK JUST LIKE HE KISSED MINE SOMETHING HAPPENED THROUGH HIS ANGER HE BLAMED HER FOR HIS WIFE LISA GETTING SO UPSET AFTER ALL HE CALLS HER AND SAYS WHATDOYAWANT DID YOU COME UP HERE TO THE SHOP SHE WAS SO ANGRY THIS EXPOSED HIM BEING INVOLVED WITH LISA ANN CARNES PERHAPS HE BLAMED ME AS WELL SECRETS OF MURDER AND MAYHEIM MEANINGFUL LUST GONE ARRAY WHAT DID SHE SEE FAST FORWARDING THE NEW GIRL THREATENS TO LEAVE HE GRABS HIS SMALL CALIBER AND POINTS AT HER HEAD BRAGGING ABOUT SHOOTING  KILLING A YOUNG MOTHER WITH HER BACK TURNED AWAY LEAVING SHE FEARED HER SAFETY BLOCKED TRULY NOLAN IN THE DRIVEWAY AND DROVE NON STOP TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH HER TWO KIDS THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRITS PASSING OVER US THE KILLING OF A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE YEARS YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW UNTIL YOU'RE IN THE HEADLIGHTS WONDERING WHEN HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU YOU THANK GOD KNOWING THIS UNSOLVED MURDER COULD HAVE BEEN ME FUNNY WELL STRANGE RIGHT HIS KISSED MY CHEEK THEN KISSES HER CHEEK AND SHE'S FOUND FACED DOWN IN MY MADNESS I ACTUALLY WONDER IF SHE SMELLED MY PERFUME WAS MY LIPSTICK ON HIS SHIRT ON HIS CHEEK TRANSFERED TO HER CHEEK WHY WHO COULD TELL RIGHT SOME MUCH WAS GOING ON CARNEY FOLK FROM ANTIOCH KARNAK METROPOLIS I WONDER AS SHE STANDS THERE IN THE DOORWAY HEAD TILTED YOU KNOW SOMETHING I AWAKEN TO THE SOUND OF THE CARNIVAL BALLOONS SLOT MACHINE RAFFLE FIR A VOLKSWAGON MUD WRESTLING STUFF ANIMALS HANGING CIRO SHORT FRAME GIVING ORDERS BEHIND LIL PETE'S TAVERN COTTON CANDY GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH THE GHOST OF UNSOLVED MURDER STANDING BEFORE ME I SAY GOODNIGHT LISA TRULY NOLAN IS HERE AGAIN

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