Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
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Knife
Slit and
Slither knife
Penetrate in phallic push
To perforate the pulse of tissues in the flesh
Slice a vein to drain the unsuspecting victim
E’er they bleed and plea
Their scream
Of death
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