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"Don't Look Down"
The Firefighter fought off the flames before he forcibly grabbed me; As the window billowed with smoke, then broke; engulfing my lungs, coughing coarsely and madly Stories above New York they latched me to the ladder, as we leaned back and forth, fanning the heat Everybody ran in the street inaudibly gasping, pointing, panicking, as the building burned badly to its core in an agony Cabbies got out of their taxis blowing their horns unanimously, while the pedestrians looked on drawn like the moth to the torch of humanity My mothers corpse lie its black debris scorched to an ashy heap, gorgeous and ghastly she died dormant, I had to leave... This ladder seems to be melting in the early morning 4 alarm portrait of catastrophe The Firefighter looks over at me immorally with authority, remorselessly with apathy And says "Don't look down..." morbidly, flames, orangey, flashy. .
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Last edited by Frank; 08-30-2014 at 11:04 PM. |
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