Arnold Bailey's Weblog

Cold Blooded Killer

I take position
Masterful camouflage
Waiting

Victims pass by
Beyond reach
Patience

Time passes slowly
She comes
Beautiful

She moves closer
Heart pounding
Anticipation

I lunge out
She struggles
Darkness

Her body, limp
Mission successful
Satisfaction

I love mosquitoes

~ Arnold Bailey

What would they have been

A man saved thirty people
The headlines would have read
A serial killer claims another
In the news it is not said

The first woman President elected
But never came to be
A tyrant tried for mass murder
A trial we shall not see

An artist inspires millions
Her canvas stands unfilled
A rock star dies of overdose
But he never took [...]