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Watching (Free verse) by DMonster

Rain is pounding pounding down Wind that howls rattles windows Someone walks in the middle of the street Hood up, knife in hand She runs the blade across her wrist Blood spills staning the ground She passes out no longer feeling Blood is draining they aren't fast enough She is dying in the street People stand by merly watching Noone says a thing She is dead now, too late

middenHeap 12-Jan-04/6:16 AM
I ain't weeping. Another time in that same office I walked in on a B&E, the guys were hopped up on pcp or something and had knives & I had to run from them to another office & call 911 again. And another time I was working very late and I was taking a nap and I woke up and heard men outside shouting things like "get me a hose on number 3" and I looked outside and everywhere was flame. It was the building next door--arson. I called a coworker who lived nearby, he came immediately and we rushed around unplugging computers. A big blocky fireman came in and yelled at us. "What's more important, the computers or your lives?" But they saved our building. I remember the firemen in the snorkels silhouetted against the orange night just before the front wall fell into the street and killed one of them. They looked like angels, steam and smoke billowing around them.




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