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In other local news today, a shooting took place near
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Everyone around the premises was struck with fear
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Police surrounded the building and blocked off the street
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The gunman tried to fight his way into the mid-day heat
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Police fired at him, and he was struck down
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But not before the gunman mortified the town
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The gunman was a well known local to the area
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However another 10 people died in the hysteria
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The investigation on why he did this is still under way
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Police reports tell us it's because no one heard what he had to say
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Interesting topic for a poem, but the rhythm to it seems off to me

Nickloves wrote:

Interesting topic for a poem, but the rhythm to it seems off to me

yeah, it was tired when i wrote it... my better stuff is when if more awake and caffeinated.

The Ratta tat tat seems to short and "there for the sake of it" to be a line, so it makes the lines between them feel feel like they've just be written consequtively, and this together makes the poem seem really basic

Coda wrote:

The Ratta tat tat seems to short and "there for the sake of it" to be a line, so it makes the lines between them feel feel like they've just be written consequtively, and this together makes the poem seem really basic

yeah, i know... It was 2 am for me when i wrote that. I was half asleep and completely out of it. I've done better, but i lost them all. The file (physical file, they were written documents) i had them in is gone. I don't know where it went.. I had backups of them too, and those have disappeared too. It frustrates me because those were the best one's i have ever composed, and now they're gone.

In about a week or so when i get in the mood to write, i'll try again.