killing field

lying again
	in the killing field
shotgun hole
	in the chest
so many times
	I've been in this place
quietly bleeding out
	into the mud.

ragged wound
	jagged breath
pleading eye
	fading sky.

all good people
	look away
brothers and sisters
	pass me by.

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