Murder chat rooms on the internet
\ndraw one in to crazies not yet met.
\nVideos of bloodbaths filmed for fun.
\nCartoons of a shooter with long gun.
\nBobby’s last post was of a beheading.
\nHe’ll get revenge for years of bed-wetting.
\nWith auto rifle he climbed on a roof,
\nshot random paraders as a goof.
\nDead were folks from eight to eighty-five.
\nThirty more he wounded might survive.
\nCaptured after uneventful chase,
\nhis mug shot shows sad young sicko’s face.
\nReed thin and quite tattoo decorated,
\nhe finally took aim at what he hated.
\nCalled himself a rapper named “Awake,”
\nstrove to cure America’s ‘mistake.’
\nThough he was a Cub Scout as a kid,
\nit seems there was an evil side he hid.
\nWhen message boards and 4chan brought him out,
\nhe flipped to a much darker side, no doubt.
\nAnd so, in Highland Park, he met his fate,
\ndeciding July fourth was the right date.
\nHe put a murder show on for the news.
\nToo late now were social media clues.
\nAnd when the police tracked him down,
\nhe meekly laid out on the ground.
\nBobby Crimo had his say.
\nSeven people dead today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Murder chat rooms on the internet draw one in to crazies not yet met. Videos of bloodbaths filmed for fun. Cartoons of a shooter with long gun. Bobby’s last post was of a beheading. He’ll get revenge for years of bed-wetting. With auto rifle he climbed on a roof, shot random paraders as a goof. 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