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The George Polk Conspiracy

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George was a journalist,
He'd write down all the news,
The thing he liked best about his job, is that he rarely had anything to lose

Then George went to Greece,
To report a civil war,
To grab his pencil and write about,
The violence and the gore.

In his snooping, he got a scoop,
Rumors did erupt,
He brought the United States news,
About our politicians: corrupt!

Soon, George went missing,
He was lost an entire week,
What we found out next,
Would make our nation freak.

George was found!
But he was dead,
Not a collateral victim,
No bullets in his head.

He was given an autopsy,
On his corpse: colored grey and green,
The formal report said: “Cause of death unkown”
Whatever could this mean?
Due for edits, rewrites, and changes, but I am still proud of it. 4 out of 5 teachers loved it, as well as 2 out of 7 middle school students! LO!

I saw George Polk for the first time on a postage stamp (Great American Reporters) and the story about him on the back was so absurd that I just had to write a poem about it. I took a blank book and wrote down a shitty little ditty about him. I made a few edits, and this came out!

I made some really good prose, but it's almost always too depressing.
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