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Unfamiliar Despair
  Justice is done.
  The killers
    walked
             behind
        the
       pale blue and rawly red
        gaze
       at the ceiling
       of the bank
       with marble floors
        and pillars
      decorated with mythological figures.
       Now
      the painter was
       executed
      with the pistol
      in the head.
     The bullet smashed
      through his brain.
     Before all this occurred
      their peculiar origin
     traced a peculiar pattern.
      A summer.
     Forty years passed
      which
          passed before his eyes.
     His first lover,
         he had most madly loved
     exhausted him
      as she lectured
       him
       of
      his dying mother
      in Sicily.
     He did not remember
    seeing a woman leap to her death
     just days after
  his father
     kicked
     three police men
    when he grew angry
     when
    the boys of the neighborhood-
     an oppression
    chose sides.
  Being a jerk.
    To him.
  But now
     having survived
    the army
  of a spectator war
    of life
    he
    writes
  at the end of
    unfamiliar
     despair.

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This found poem is the product of a recent English project, where in I took the lines out of two short stories, and an AP essay prompt. The poem starts off with the painter being killed by a couple of men in a bank. It then shifts to the painters interesting past. So, I hope you enjoy it!