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  1.  
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  3.  
  4.                             The Slashing
  5.  
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  7.                        She smiled at him then,
  8.                        A smile
  9.                        Which could freeze
  10.                        Even the hardiest of polar bears.
  11.                         
  12.                        Her eyes warned
  13.                        In a flashing signal,
  14.                        "Stay there,
  15.                        Stay away from me."
  16.                         
  17.                        She held out her arm to him,
  18.                        Her hand squeezed
  19.                        In a fist--
  20.                        A white procelain ball.
  21.                         
  22.                        She raised her other arm
  23.                        Something shiny flashed
  24.                        In the light--
  25.                        A razor.
  26.                         
  27.                        She drew it
  28.                        Slowly
  29.                        Across her lovely,
  30.                        Frail wrist.
  31.                         
  32.                        But nothing happened.
  33.                        He sighed
  34.                        A sigh of immense relief.
  35.                        He knew she could not do it.
  36.                         
  37.                        Slowly but surely
  38.                        Red beads
  39.                        Welled
  40.                        Along the gash.
  41.                         
  42.                        "No!!" he shouted.
  43.                        And it reverbrated
  44.                        through the hollow
  45.                        Empty room.
  46.                         
  47.                        "I'm sorry," she whispered.
  48.                        The tear drop and the blood
  49.                        Fell
  50.                        Simultaneously.
  51.                         
  52.                        And smashed
  53.                        On the grey, concrete floor
  54.                        Two drops
  55.                        Representing her pain and angony.
  56.  
  57.  
  58. Anonymous
  59. Printed in The Maple Leaf -- August 1986
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