1. Someone grabbed Fred's ankles. Pulled him back. 'Sid' he shouted. Loud gunfire.No-one heard. Sid's
body is left where he fell.
2. 2 boys banged the dustbin lids together. BANG,BANG. Fred screamed and covered his ears. 'Funny
farm Fred' the boys taunted.
3. May crushed sleeping pills. Mixed them into a glass of whisky. Holding Fred's head still she encouraged him to drink...
I liked this Sandra - you've avoided textspeak and gone for the highly condensed short sentences which make Twitter what it is. As always in your work there's something very poignant about the way you've handled it, and about this compression of a life. These work very well as poems. Shouldn't 1 and 2 be switched round?
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