Word warfare

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Words are bullets
Arsenal of journalism
Full of clean weapons
Capable of decapitating
Ending a career in a paragraph
Ripping off a limb of fortune
And those are the allowed ones
Sometimes journalism strays
Leaves bounds of civilized observation
Plays the man not the issue
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Sources anonymous slandering
Staining by proximity
Slinging mud till it sticks
Personal vendettas columns thick
Black as tank threads
Rolling over the undefended
Stripping pride and hope away
Leaving bitter broken shells of men
Who once lead the way.