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JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

0 posted 2008-05-06 05:09 PM


Just the Four of Us

We are killers.
There are four of us.
We chose this profession,
it didn't choose us.
For us to kill
someone must come to us
and pay our price.
The price is not set,
it goes up and down
like the price of gasoline,
but mostly up.
We have never messed up.
We always kill our man
or woman, but we don't
do children, thats an
unwritten rule.
Once that rule was broken,
there was a mistake.
Allright we messed up once.
We all have names
that aren't our real names.
We all have our specialities,
and like special forces
we have more than one.
We speak seven languages
and that helps us travel
the world and communicate with
those that want us to eliminate.
These are our names, changed
to protect the not so innocent:
Jawbreaker, Pork Salad,
Liberace and Johnie Stofiani.
Let me share a few specifics
about the one called Jawbreaker.
He was raised in foster homes,
having four different step dads,
and not one of them would leave
him alone, that is until he
reached the age of 15, and one
night he was watching his stepdad
putting on some rings and stepsons
know what that means, and that night
he stood up to be a man, with fists
of fury he broke stepdads jaw and
as he watched him fall, he knew he
had to leave Chicago for awhile.
Witnessed this myself one night in Guam,
the way Pork Salad picked up his name.
He went to a combination luau and chicken
fight one night and he got into a fight
with a Filipino man with a big machete.
Seems the guy with the machete took
a swing at Eddy, his name at the time,
and before anyone could help out, Eddy
took the machete, cut off the luau's pig
head and placed the pigs head over the
Filipino's head with the apple still in
his mouth.  I yelled pork salad as we
departed and that name's stuck ever since.
Soo Long, alias Liberace, lived in Hong Kong
until he turned 13, and he would dream of
joining the boy scouts because they had axes
and knives and other sharp things, so one day
while his mother was away, he pushed the piano
that she required him to play for at least two
hours a day, down the stupid stairs, and the
piano was smart enough to break into litte
pieces, and Soo Long, figuring a piano tuner
would take a while to fix it, hit the road,
and five years later me and the boys met him
in Seoul.  Now you might wondr about this guy
named Johnie Stofiani, I know I do every day.
His grandfatehr was pure Italian, so that made
him about a 25%er, with some Scottish, Irish
English to finish him off, and one day he
figured he had enough of home, and he didn't
like being alone, so he went off a joined
the U.S. Army.   They sent him to Germany to
see what the world looked life over the sea,
and it looked plenty good from where he stood.
He took a bus to the Frankfort Zoo and met a
woman that thought she knew exactly what he
wanted and she thought she had it all.
After a while he got real bored, but then he
met a Korean woman he adored and she said
"Lets go home and meet my mommy and daddy."  
So off to Korea they go, to a big beautiful
city named Seoul, and he fell in love with the
woman and her city.  Two weeks after the wedding
Stofiani's wife "So Young" and pretty ask him
how he was going to make a living.  He took out
the business card he had been given at the wedding
by a man named Eddy and said "I think I'll give
this a try."   We are killers, there are four of
us, we chose this profession it didn't choose us.

JamesLee
06May
2008

[This message has been edited by JamesMichael (05-08-2008 08:10 PM).]

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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia
1 posted 2008-05-07 04:59 AM


gosh James... this is wonderful!  love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

gilead
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since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067
nevada, USA
2 posted 2008-05-07 01:34 PM


This is a remarkable way at looking at this subject, and wonderfully done!

I like the brutal starkness of---killers!

Art

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2008-05-07 01:49 PM


Wow! James, I have a question andI hope it doesn't offend you but why do you do that "kissy face stuff"all the time when you can write like this. this is great!
                                    Ida

steavenr
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4 posted 2008-05-07 02:02 PM


very interesting and clever write...will you be posting your rates
JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
5 posted 2008-05-07 07:40 PM


Thanks Roniece, gilead, Marchmadness and stevenr for the wonderful responses...
Marchmadness if I were offended easily I think I would be...but I understand different strokes for different folks...kindof like the Presidential race...James

jwesley
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Spring, Texas
6 posted 2008-05-07 09:57 PM


Well, another side of you .... but truth be told...hell of a read.  Much enjoyed.

Jimmy

Artic Wind
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7 posted 2008-05-07 10:19 PM


Lovely writing

ARCTIC WIND

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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So. El Monte, California
8 posted 2008-05-08 12:58 PM


Sorry James, I really didn't mean to be rude. Sometimes I just say what I'm thinking
without thinking, I guess.
                               Ida

JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
9 posted 2008-05-09 05:51 PM


Thank you jwesley, Artic Wind and Marchmadness for the nice responses...much appreciated...James
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