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decapitation

suicide bomber
the severed head, the head shot
decapitation

the insurgencies,
susicious activities,
the leitmotif

headline syllables
Michel de Nostradam might
conjure from his pot

(if i were a publisher of news
i would hire a computer guru
to write a program to
sift and parse
the centuries
of quatrains to produce
plausibly translated
and topical headlines)

norm for a decade
headshots score better in games
we knew it would come