Interlude

City News. Page b4
Wednesday evening the suspected crime boss
Big Ernie La Brusko was killed as he left his
attorney’s office. The assailant was unseen and
the police have no clues at this time but are spec-
ulating it was professional hit.


From the roof top he did see,
Dirty streets,
Across which he must soon flee,
Pursuit will come swiftly now,
Dirty streets
Would also tell of the how,
Leading quickly to the who,
On the streets
They all knew what they would do.
Powerful interrupted;
Of the streets
Alliances corrupted .

Down the drainpipe into dark,
Dark sidewalks,
Acrosswise a car now parked,
Thugs exit with guns in hand,
Bleak sidewalks,
Watched in the doorway, they stand.
Burst into the hotel door
Bleaker steps,
And soon there was blood soaked floor.
Murder is murder killing,
Bloody steps
Murder is bloody spilling.

Sirens wail.

A cigar
A glowing smelly ember,
From shadows
Still unseen,
Burning smell to remember;
From a tube
Still unseen
A feather dart, death it deals
From shadows
Still unseen,
Escape now has a flat wheel,
Cigar cast
An ember admidst the trash.

Police Arrive
Thugs try to flee.

Pursuit now misdirected,
Bloody step
Embers fire connected,
Spreads quickly across the ground
Dirty streets
Walking away fading sound
Of gunshots of battle lost
Bloody street,
No one is the policeman’s cost.
Fire and rescue arrive,
Burning street,
Finds not one of the thugs alive.
But other lives were ended,
Weeping streets
Useless slaughter intended
To even some perceived score
Weeping streets,
Thoughtless response now is war.

Smoke remains
Lingering past the Flames,
When sunlight returns
And learns,
He’ll be beyond the trains.


Gloom 99

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