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down an old street in an even older town

many relics of the past are likely to be found

dust cakes thick upon machinery now no longer used

seventy years or more have went by

just when were they excused

the horse drawn carriage no longer awaits patiently

outside its master's palatial lodge

shoot outs at the count of ten no longer occur like in

the early days of Dodge

there are no more rocks of strength and good deed

resembling that of the likes of Marshall Matt Dillon

now bodies are cut to pieces with but one shot and that's

the late twentieth century's idea of killing

once upon a time in a dirt road town

there was only one way to kill

at least one way preferred but now one can do it in a multitude

of ways even with but one small blue pill

to think we've come so far only to improve our skills

where methods of dying are concerned

tell me, is this the lessons from all who fell so bloodily before us

that we subsequently learned

one can only pray not...............

( written March 3, 1993 am)