Paranoid about the rising crime,
perhaps justifiable so,
she bought a handgun.
By mistake, she cut a guy off in
traffic and felt it was his fault
that they almost had an accident.
She jammed on her brakes, got enraged,
started screaming and swearing at the guy
who at first remained calm.
But after her long tirade of swears
and insults, the guy got pissed and
got out of his car to confront her.
To shut him up, she pulled out her gun.
But, enraged, he kept walking toward
her car to tell her off.
She panicked and shot him, blowing her
chances for a self defense plea after
she was arrested.
When she was convicted of murder
in court and sent to jail, she bemoaned
she let anger control her
and took a life because of it. And with
a long prison sentence, lost her freedom
for most of her life.
Bob Boyd
