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The Countdown

March 2, 2016
By dogsrule1271 SILVER, Nerstrand, Minnesota
dogsrule1271 SILVER, Nerstrand, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories&mdash;science fiction or otherwise. Which means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.&rdquo;<br /> &ndash;Ray Bradbury


The news reaches my ears
tentacles twisting my reality. Not
quite a boy
in one minute morphed
into the reaper

Bang

A mother’s affectionate eyes
grow dull, regret loosens the trigger
of the boy barely holding on as screams
tear through the air. Hatred bringing
up the Hasta once more.

Bang

A sister’s outstretched hand 
falls limp in a pool of crimson ichor, black metal
clatters on the tile, the boy
frantic, wishing for the rewind
on an unfamiliar remote

A family turned into a math
equation. Two ripped from five, only he wishes
they were just numbers on a page

The boy is no longer inside himself
only one subtracted from three.


The author's comments:

This is about a domestic shooting that happened in my home town.


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