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Supply and Demand

April 7, 2014
By gottagetout17 SILVER, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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gottagetout17 SILVER, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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"No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world" ~Dead Poets Society

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“Valentine’s Massacre Could be Work of Capone”
“Police Raid Speakeasy in Search of Rum-Runner”
“We Must Find this Ruthless Racketeer”
Am I really this
horrible
heartless
monster
they’re sayin’ I am?
I got in with the wrong crowd.
No, me and Johnny’s business was different.
Supplying a demand.
That’s all we was doin’.
That’s what I thought anyway.
(I didn’t consider the body count.)
To stop the screams…
I’ll down another glass, sure-
But no.
I’m no monster.
Hey, I’m a business man.

© Meredith S., Kannapolis, NC

The author's comments:
last one from Talk of the Speakeasy series. good luck figuring out who's perspective this one is told from!
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