Away in the Dark ...

By Isaac Doggett

A rough hangout
A place you go to get silence, shot or worse
An abandoned cigarette pack under the street light 
An old gasoline pump on the ground
A dirty tough hoodlum eyeing you 

A switchblade slashes through the dark night
A shimmering ray of steel and death
And things have just gone from bad to worse

Away in the dark, there is no law
And no one to save you from the rough silent slash of death
Away in the dark, there’s no one to hear when you shout out in fear
Anybody out there?
 

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