<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">Night Whispers Like a Bomb</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"> </span></p><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">It’s night. I'm worn down,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">worn out, exhausted,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">murder will do that you know.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">They tell me the war is over there,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">but I don't know where that is.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">There’s a bullet in my mouth</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">(how did it get there?) </span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">and I’m afraid. If I swallow it</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">or spit it out, either way,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">it might explode. So</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">I roll my tongue around it,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">hold my peace,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">that’s what they tell me,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">that's what they like to say,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">everyone is so smart, </span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">they know so many words,</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">but it isn't peace.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 28px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Peter Levitt</span></div></div></body></html>