Will Karry Poet I do not know?

The Crazy Stranger

Did this stranger appear for reasons unknown? 
Just like that no good half-crazy other? 
Another stranger among those he knows not 
But alas he may be the others rugged brother 
His mind, yes it wanders ever now and again 
While some even call him no good names 
But he’s seen life through eyes of horror 
But it’s always his kind that gets the blame 
Homeless, alone and he really doesn’t know 
What brought him this far down? 
But the kind neighbors all agree in unison on something 
His kind needs to up and leave their town 
There’s places for his kind and it’s behind bars 
So he won’t pester or harm our precious own 
And who knows what kind of disease or viruses 
Are still crawling around in his bones 
This vagrant needs to just get on down the road 
He needs to be somebody else’s problem you know  
We’re descent, respectable people in this town 
We don’t need someone hanging around, yep he’s got to go 
The sheriff beat him until he was bloodied and unconscious  
And some others drug his body down an old country lane 
They tossed him in the woods in a bloody pile 
Maybe he’ll wash away with the coming rain 
The local paper had his story on the front page 
It said some thugs must have killed this young man 
And the sheriff made a comment later on that day 
The county was behind him and were making a stand 
No matter how it ended in time and in space 
And no matter what made them lie as evil came out 
The boy they killed and threw in the swamp land 
Is not what this writing is all about? 
It’s about how people are afraid of the unknown 
And will kill if they don’t understand 
The boy who died there in the swamp 
Fought in Viet Nam and made his last stand 
He’d seen horrible things up close and personal 
And his mind just went sort of off site 
That’s why he traveled the roads of back country 
And that’s how he met death on that terrible night

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