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"The Shooting," "The Shooting."

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I shot an otter
because I had a gun.

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The gun was loaned to
me, you understand.

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Perhaps I shot it
merely for the fun.

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Must everything have
meaning and be planned?

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Afterwards I suffered penitence
and dreamed my dachshund

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died, convulsed in fright.

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They look alike, but
that's coincidence.

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Within one week, my
dream was proven right.

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At first, I thought its death
significant as punishment

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for what I'd likely done.

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But good sense said I had
nothing to repent, that it

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is natural to hunt for fun.

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Was I unnatural to feel remorse?

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I mourn the otter
and my dog as one.

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But superstition would
not guide my course.

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To prove that I was
free, I bought the gun.

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I dreamed I watched my
frightened brother die.

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Such fancy worried
me, I must admit.

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But at his funeral, I would
not cry, certain that I was not

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to blame for it.

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I gave my friend the
gun because of guilt

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and feared then that
my sanity was done.

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On fear, he said, the
myth of hell was built.

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He shot an otter
because he had a gun.