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Suicide Kid
water-pistol in hand the kid jumped out at us from God knows where clearly he liked that water-pistol of his shooting at us until we pretended to panic and ran away screaming the kid laughed his head off he looked like such a hero later we saw him again at dusk alone in the glow of the setting sun sitting on the grass pointing the pistol at himself he put it in his mouth with total concentration no longer interested in us there’s something strange about that kid you said I knew what you meant but since he lived next-door to me I knew what was really going on: every time he went out to play his mother would fill his water-pistol with milk however I kept this fact from you just in case you were disappointed © Translation: 2004, Simon Patton |
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