Sounds
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By TJW
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Squirrels and birds
everywhere
'possums and 'coons
here and there
Click of a magazine
slapped into a
pistol
Click of the bolt slid back
sounds nothing like a grunt
or
a
whistle
It's the definitive click
of one in the chamber
Locked and loaded
the last sound remembered
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Sharp
... and uncomfortable in its truth
best
Lxx
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perhaps the reverberation of
perhaps the reverberation of the shot, the last sound? Already too late.
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Sharp, as lenchen says, and
Sharp, as lenchen says, and loaded with sound
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Evocative and kinda sinister.
Evocative and kinda sinister. I'm rooting for the 'possums and 'coons
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TJ I hope you don't and I'm
TJ I hope you don't and I'm sure your your babies would be really unhappy without you. I'd try some different drugs first. Are they migraines?
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A very powerful poem, TJW and
A very powerful poem, TJW and brilliantly written. These headaches sound terrible and headaches can be so debilitating. I can really imagine feeling sick of them. Am sending kind thoughts over to you and hoping perhaps you can have further investigation in the new year with the chance of different medications or treatments. Wishing you healing.
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Adding my wishes to those of
Adding my wishes to those of Claudine and Rachel
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