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"Bed 13 did not take his life.
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He was done in
by Germain-the-Lecher,
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the lover of Laura, Denise,
and next, Rolande, the postal thief.
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The Raven is following the funeral."
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Shattered lives didn't suffice.
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Broken homes didn't suffice.
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The anonymous murderer
had to have blood as well.
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These little pieces of white paper
rained on the city.
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They made some of you laugh.
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Would you have laughed knowing
they would make a mother weep?
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But our whole town shares her grief.
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Were it not out of place to invoke
human justice before this grave
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that draws us closer
to divine justice,
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I would say the whole town
shares her desire for vengeance.
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Just as, in olden times, the owl
would be nailed to the barn door,
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you shall be nailed
to the cemetery gates,
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fowl of blood.
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Fowl of darkness.
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Raven!
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In the name
of the overwrought citizens here
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and in the name of the power
invested in me,
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I proclaim:
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Unhappy victim of a nameless murderer,
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you shall be avenged!
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- She's the Raven!
- It's not true!
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The letter was in your wreath!
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- Others held it!
- Are you accusing me?
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You put the letter in the wreath!