The uniformed officer stood on the graveled street.
While blood trickles down to his dusty feet.

  Angry eyes gaze at the battered vehicles sitting by the curb.
A shattered whiskey bottle, he does not pick up or disturb.

  Shackled a mumbling driver sits on the grassy knoll.
Distraught a family is barely kept under control.

  Emergency paramedics work to save a young girl at all cost.
Dedicated firemen retrieve her mother but the battle is lost.

  Quickly the ambulance drivers wheel the grieving father away.
As a white sheet is placed on the innocent child, a drunk's prey.

  Pity for the innocent family killed by the drinking age.
Fills the watching audience with flaming darts of rage.

  Saddened the policemen carries away the handcuffed man.
While the innocent passengers are transported to a morgue van.

  Another senseless tragedy caused by the alcoholic who drives.
With a deadly weapon that destroys many virtuous lives.

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