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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{crime wave}
  john grey


Move on, the cop says.
Move on or I'll have to arrest you.
For got moving on, I guess.
The latest crime, being where you are.

Five guys on a street comer chatting
Apparently, anything more than four
is a gang.
And who wants to be a gang.
One of us volunteers to
break away from the rest of us,
go solo.
Now we really are just four guys
on a street comer chatting.

But the cop says, move on anyway.
That guy might come back.
Another guy might join you.
It's hard when it's about people.
Never know when come might come along.
And so many people cops.
You'll be illegal before you know it.