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The Gunfire Rages

The gunfire rages through the cracks of neighborhood cages as every fetid tenement ages and voodoo economics suppress wages of waitresses, cabbies and sages... while the slick-shoe alderman engages in taxing your turnip-blood in stages and blue-jeaned billionaires decry outrages of clothes-hanger abortions back-stages and gang-banger rampages -- as this feckless dog-and-pony upstages detonated death's tick-tock gauges -

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Date: 1/2/2020 12:39:00 PM
Gershon, I understand why you felt this way as violence in our nation did not take a holiday vacation. It's hard to get a grip on rising prices and the growing homeless population. Let's pray our future looks brighter a few months from now. Excellent, compelling writing, my friend. Happy new year, Carolyn
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Date: 1/2/2020 1:11:00 PM
Excellent point, Carolyn. In Chicago, in fact, violence surges during holiday periods, even Xmas-New Years. Thanks, Gershon

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