Mildred the Blade

I saw the idiot slip and fall overboard at night.

I said nothing.

In keeping with the nature of things, where

Sadness, beauty, expansion, molecules of love and entropy.

Come together and explode,

Mildred, with bloodied stolen cash.

and her handsome boyfriend with a gun.

robbed her family for fun

and terror looked pretty good

and they saw me, and run

Freedom felt like terror, and terror looked pretty good

She didn’t like to see all that blood.

the landscape of the crime was open.

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