Friday, August 15, 2014
childhood memories
childhood memories
the odor of death
that filled the hallway
when they discovered
the decomposing
dead man next door
the blood on the
street from the
school girl struck by
a car in the crosswalk
her shrill sobs as
she sat on the
curb bleeding
waiting for an
ambulance to come
the man with the
bloody head and face
who was hit in the
head with a bottle
by the husband
of the housewife he
was trying to help
save from an
abusive battering
the fireman covering
a frightened naked girl
in a blanket as the
house she had been
rescued from filled with
flames that flared furiously
as the roof fell in
the blood on the
side walk from a
shop owner who was
shot in his store then
managed to stagger
outside to die
a bunch of big bullies
surrounding me and
several fists hitting
me in the stomach
and face as i fell
to the ground trying to
cover my head in my hands
and being kicked hard
in the head repeatedly
blood issuing from my ear
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