Chalk outlines

 

Chalk

outlines

a body

lain

slain.

Blood stains

the ground.

It Pools

all around.

Lived life

selling

white lines,

telling white lies.

 

Lived life

selling high times.

A steep decline,

missed

a deadline.

Now he's dead,

the end of the line.

Out of time

You can pick the flesh

from the bones

of the story.

A victim

of atrocity,

a victim

of the violent city.

 

Chalk outlines

the body on the ground,

Sirens sound,

another turf war

going down.

Chalk outlines

all over town.

chalked off,

another statistic

to this war-torn battleground.

 

Chalk outlines,

all that remains

in the dull twilight.

The red stain,

ink black

in the light

of the weeping satellite.

Lived life

selling fake smiles.

Sirens will wail tonight,

through the air

that cries in silent foresight.

Knowing

that chalk outlines

multiply.

 

 

 

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