One stray impatient sigh

Becomes a sharpened dagger

Falling through the void

Through fabric and flesh

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One hateful glimmer

In a hardened stare

Turns to burning lead

Lodged forever in the mind

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One stream of words

Grows cancerous in the soul

A blossoming shroud

Freeing death from its pillbox  

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One volley of slurs

Breeds a gathering mob

Crashing over the slums

Before the lash of their tyrant