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~~ Screeeeeeeech ~~

by

Rick S. Hall

Metal crushes, plastic scatters
Souls lay on asphalt, torn and shattered

Doctors judge what lays upon their table
Their feast begins, will you end up able

You are lucky, so the story goes
Some doors now open and others close

Insurance minions lay in vast groups
You end up garbage on their back stoop

Judges pondered at your bleak fate
You have to wonder if they were awake

So you sit and sit in todays hot sun
Its a ghostly life that you have won

Tire shod death on these black ribbons roar
The metal die is cast, and we call for more

We who survive in this push and shove
Now search through time for one to love

I must pray the Lord my soul to keep
This hill I climb, must it be so steep

How long, how long on black ribbon will metal fly
So many lost and still I cry

Metal crushes, plastic scatters
More souls on asphalt, torn and shattered