Harry Brown, devastotor.
Lives on a meagre
Military pension.
Former operative, British Marines.
Modest apartment.
Unseemly neighbourhood.
Close by favourite pub
For chess contests
With best friend Leonard.
The friend has a tough walk home
Through a square hosting
Hooligans.
Shitty, vile low-life end
Of a chain of drug thugs.
All the way up
To big Money.
Sadly Leonard loses
His life to the Gang
In a walk home skirmish.
Harry, distraught from
The Hospital
Attacks the Police Detachment
With repeated demands.
Not a very encouraging
Response.
Usual routines fruitless.
Enters now, the former Marine
Killing machine.
Streets, drug lairs, high end
Limousines
Cleaned up
Slowly, insistently.
By ONE OLD MAN.
Who wants his
Neighbourhood back.
His friend avenged.
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Written on May 29, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on May 29, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on May 29, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 777 |
Words | 175 |
Stanzas | 24 |
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