AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Thursday, January 17, 2008

the hostage

The Hostage.

A man, in a small town in Texas,
robbed a bank; then stuck a gun
into his mouth and took himself
hostage. Outside, when asked to
free the hostage he took the gun
out to answer and was shot dead
by the sheriff

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