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One Who Survives

One Who Survives

Beer cans
rattle empty
across wet yellow lines.
Smoking metal…junkyard ready:
Three dead.

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Eve Roper

February 13, 2016 at 3:48 PM

Gerard, congratulations on your placement in survivor contest!!!

Sara Kendrick

February 12, 2016 at 5:25 PM

Thank you for participating in my contest “The One Who Survives”..It was an honor to read your entry..Sara

Joyce Johnson

February 12, 2016 at 12:08 AM

Such a sad story well told. Congratulations. Love, Joyce

Poet Destroyer A

February 11, 2016 at 10:31 PM

GERARD, Congratulations on your awesome win. XOX ~LINDA~

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

February 11, 2016 at 10:07 PM

Very real.. congrats on ur great win with this awesome write Gerard.

Elaine George

February 11, 2016 at 12:32 PM

Many congrats on your win, dear Gerard, with this excellent Cinquain. Elaine

Susan Gentry

February 11, 2016 at 12:21 PM

Congratulations on your win with this sad, tragic story. But for the Grace of God, there go I... Well-written sharing of how it could be, was, is. Thank you.