I Let Him Finish Laughing First

of the three, didn’t bother with polite face.

“Mr. Vale, don’t leave the room.”

That got everybody’s attention.

Lenora took one step toward the stage. “This is absurd. On whose authority?”

Mercer said, “A federal warrant and about eight months of paper your family should’ve burned sooner.”

Not poetry, but good enough.

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