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Vulnerable
Police investigate the scene.
Dr. Partridge stands, in the corner,
disguising his face with his arm
due to the putrid smell.
There's not much to investigate,
not really. A man shot his wife,
a splatter painting of the skull
upon the wall, doesn't tell you more
than we know. Faith doodles
the violent art piece and touches her cross, occasionally,
after the criminal is detained, in a body bag.
There's a watery gathering on the well-kept lawn outside
as Mrs. Petty makes a pot of tea for the three children
and Gordon calls their foreign home, muttering
with prejudice 'Things like this never happen
around here.' Her brain is washed from the walls by a University volunteer.
Dr. Partridge stands, in the corner,
disguising his face with his arm
due to the putrid smell.
There's not much to investigate,
not really. A man shot his wife,
a splatter painting of the skull
upon the wall, doesn't tell you more
than we know. Faith doodles
the violent art piece and touches her cross, occasionally,
after the criminal is detained, in a body bag.
There's a watery gathering on the well-kept lawn outside
as Mrs. Petty makes a pot of tea for the three children
and Gordon calls their foreign home, muttering
with prejudice 'Things like this never happen
around here.' Her brain is washed from the walls by a University volunteer.
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