Magpie Tales 77: Ignorance Can Get You Hurt

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If only Johnny Park had been paying attention,

that sultry summer evening, to the look on her face

he wouldn't have forced the issue, sealing a fate

of twenty-seven years later, when Imelda May

had decided she'd had enough, too much,

and Johnny wouldn't have found out the hard way

Imelda had been watching carefully,

when she took off the safety, and paid him back