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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{st. valentine's day massacre}
  howie good



Street fairs churned with drifters and polio. Something bundled like a baby was buried under the rose bush. The assassin missed at point-blank range, distracted by the pair of dancing mice inside his head. Paper fell out of the sky. From then on, the Valentine heart couldn’t beat on its own, but only stones the size of pigeon’s eggs had permission to stay.