Death by Merger – Poem by Duane Anderson
Office politics meet the Old West in this terse and haunting corporate shootout.
Death by Merger by Duane Anderson draws a bleak line between boardroom battles and bloodshed—where no buyouts, no backup, and no breath remain. Read it now on Written Tales. Submissions are open if your words don’t flinch.
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Merger, downsizing buy-outs, no buy-outs gun fights. One takes a bullet to the heart and dies. The surviving gun fighter left to live on limping one lung gone struggling to breathe. There is no one left to do what is supposed to be done. It is a short time before the other lung goes. Everyone is gone now, no one to remember the dead.
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✍️ About the Authors
Duane Anderson currently lives in La Vista, NE. He has had poems published in Fine Lines, Cholla Needles, and several other publications. He is the author of ‘On the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk,’ ‘Conquer the Mountains,’ ‘Family Portraits,’ and ‘The Life of an Ordinary Man.’
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