Cop-Shooting: On a Newspaper Photograph

She just shot him, in the Daily News,

and who can blame her? He,

a sitting cop, and she, a good,

big-hearted woman with a noble flaw:

fury. Cops who have to take their guns

home should see to this: it can

be murder. If the service of the gun

had not been home as a persuader, she

would still be private in her rages, not

as public as that Akilles, who,

when shown the metals of good arms,

"at once was moved to use them."

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