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SAMARITAN

SAMARITAN

__________

 

Anyone else

Would've left that Far Right

Reactionary sprawled on the concrete

To bleed out, suffer in his

Paroxysms of serious hurt, receive

Disaster of the steel-toed kind.

 

But not you.

 

The Good Samaritan

Reflex kicked in,

Wouldn't let you

Abandon someone in need of help.

 

Distinctions such as

"Friend" and "foe" did...

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SERAPH WINGS

SERAPH WINGS

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She--English student-to-be

He--Art student

Accessorised well in cool black

Clothes as two roving assassins would

But they weren't assassins

They were just young, creative, self-expressive

Goths in love, bonded souls

With a beautiful future ahead of them

They both enjoyed the quietude before midnight

In a walk through Stubbylee Park--

 

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