<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Killer Word</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strewn on the ground<br>were the nouns; <br>the gerunds<br>and the active verbs, <br>along with the Criminal Looks<br>and Sly Slights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a Wad of Silence<br>masquerading as 'Quiet Time.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Absences were white chalk outlines<br>and fittingly so-<br>there was nothing of substance left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The yellow plastic cord-rope<br>denoted the murder scene-<br>'move on' the cop said<br>'nothing left to here to see.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You could glimpse the outline<br>of a person there<br>face-down in the street; <br>cut down from childhood<br>with Withering Stares<br>and Stab-Words; <br>Rejecting Gerunds<br>Shredded Feeling Tones, <br>Mocking Participles-<br>Little Murders all of them-<br>Psychic Evils<br>marauding Word Killers-<br>inflicting wounds that bleed-<br>inside the mind; <br> <br>blood red emotions<br>running thick in the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone calls 911</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but they come much too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What's really needed is 411<br>for those who need to know<br>Psychic Wounds <br>burrow deep<br>and eat out<br>from the inside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A word is a dangerous thing<br>to swing<br>in a crowded room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can put someone's<br>heart out<br>in the bitter<br>cold; <br>where warm hearts<br>freeze-dry; <br>shrivel up<br>and sometimes cynicalize</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from Bitter Hate<br>and then <br>Word-Murder<br>somebody else.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448213" data-title="A Killer Word de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="Strewn on the ground were the nouns; the gerunds and the active verbs, along with the Criminal Looks and Sly Slights. There was a Wad of Silence masquerading as 'Quiet Time.' The Absences were white chalk outlines and fittingly so- there was n..."></div> </div> </div>

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