Another Shooting in America
The same but different this time like the last. A 19 yr old babysitter accidentally shot a ten year old while taking selfies. At first critical the child is expected to recover. Not so sure about the 19 year old. Arrested for a Second degree felony Instead of terminal stupidity. But I would imagine the prospect of any more baby sitting jobs are grim.
Working In The Library
I catalogue the microfilm and list the headlines. One gets to me happened on 12/9/93. 3 young men/5 pm robbery 15 year old's 28 caliber gun kills Chinese counter man age 21 for 65 bucks or 35 dollars less… Than city's $100 dollars cash for any guns deal. Killer must not Have known about it. Doubt it though here in NYC the truth is often tragedy. And your life worth less than 2 buck homeless bullets waiting for an address.
Story was in New York Daily News
Trailer Park Murder
The walls of a trailer close in and mummer of voices rattle and drum like bullets in tin stirred by drink and dust all that's been lost and the terrible cost of abandoned dreams. The North Carolina wind is cold in February but its people colder collecting a debt left by that hangman some name fate some say resides in Hell or any likely place all has been lost through the terrible cost of abandoned dreams. Four people injured saved by the medics stitches and skill. Every night they come and some are lost in plain sight. it just leaves you numb say the cops- its opioids or other drugs or desperation from trailer parks to penthouse a nation of abandoned dreams.
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Rp Verlaine…
…lives in New York City. He has an MFA in creative writing from City College. He taught in New York Public schools for many years. His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames & Drinking was published in 2017 and another – Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books titled Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3 were published from 2018 to 2020. His latest book, Imagined Indecencies, was published in February of 2022. He was nominated for a pushcart prize in poetry in 2021 and 2022.
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