her mother
smoking drinking
playing w/ slot cars
after hours
at the bowling alley

the man
who got off
the bus
in the rain
who would rape her
had escaped
from a military
mental institution

in another life
she was already dead
killed by her own husband
who framed
his own
adopted son
whom she was
sleeping with

her husband
and why his nose
was never the same color
as the rest
of his face

and the stolen money
might move
from one life
to the next
a constant

and was it even her
voice
we heard
how many women
did it take
to make her
and how many lives
had she lived

you wouldn't think
she could roll
a big body
like that
off a cliff

everytime it was different
the killer
and the killed

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