From the EWG Poetry series

The Price of a Life

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With a price tag of nine ninety-five
And it still on the end of the knife
Means under a tenner for somebody's life

Found all bloody to witness the strife
Of a desperate attempt to hold life
With a price tag of nine ninety-five

Thrown carelessly out like the life
That it ended so early, the knife
Means under a tenner for somebody's life

We appeal to a girlfriend or wife
Just think did he once have a knife
With a price tag of nine ninety-five

And when did it vanish - the knife?
To protect him just 'cos you're his wife
Means under a tenner for somebody's life

So come forward while you're still alive
And tell us exactly whose knife
With a price tag of nine ninety-five
Means under a tenner for somebody's life

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