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Man At Gunpoint 2

Some men keep real cool at gunpoint Having been swimming in the company of the military, The nozzles of guns surveying in moments solitary: Witnesses to soldiers dipping their fingers in wallets For the purchase of that spitting out the bullets. Some men keep grinning at gunpoint, Because at them pistols have been pointed many times And no ugly story followed the smiles; It shall always be a nice evening story by firesides. Some men choose to be absentminded at gunpoint, When sure they are that the thing will happen And already glimpse the bullet their brains open: One’s best bet to start visualizing the after- life forgetting everything including one’s wife. Man can be cynical at gunpoint, When fixated his mind is upon a notion Whose abandonment would cost him a demotion The watchword of unwavering Arabs Between the Healthy and the On-Tabs . But should any man be unmanned at gunpoint Following a menacing loosening of the thing’s safety catch Behind a door complete with a latch A hang man’s look on the faces of the Gang Thinking of nothing else but the loud bang.

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