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Chinatown massacre...

The front page news hit home!

 

Thirteen dead in a gambling pen...

 

A dead bell hounds those

 

rain soaked back streets

 

bullits smash soot blind windows

 

and the smell of blood makes you sick...

 

White light of the camera eye

 

spinning red  globes

 

An attendant shacks his head"How do you rationalize this mess"

 

"Just bag up the rest"

 

A child whimpers.

 

"Hush, Little flower,

 

it is just death's long shadow

 

way down in Chinatown."

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Written by
kathleen-myra-colby
German
Published
Sep 23, 2010
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KM COLBY @ 1986

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