Believe It or Not / George J. Dance

Believe It or Not

Ladies and gentleman: we recovered a bullet
at the hospital on the second victim's gurney.
When examined, the bullet was found to have
no trace of blood, no bone or tissue fragments,
no particles of thread or thread striations.

Nevertheless, our forensic panel
by careful reconstructon of the crime scene
and rigorous tests, has finally determined
that both the men were shot with that one bullet.

The bullet struck the first man in his back
below the shoulder, damaged his right lung,
and smashed a vertebra, causing it to deflect
and exit through his throat in what we thought
previously was another entrance wound.

The bullet then hit the man in the front seat,
entered his back just below the armpit
and pulverized five inches of a rib
which again caused the bullet to deflect
and exit on his right side at the nipple.

On exiting it grazed the man's right arm
and hit a cufflink, once again deflecting
into his wrist and shattering the bone
which caused the bullet to deflect again.

It then entered the second man's left thigh
embedded shallowly beneath the skin
and fell out later at the hospital.

Believe it or not, this single pristine bullet
alone caused seven entry and exit wounds
and passed through 15 inches of muscle tissue,
through seven layers of skin, 15 of clothing,
and through two bones, a radius and a rib.

With these new findings, we can say there is
no evidence of any second shooter
and therefore we conclude that one lone gunman
shot both the Governor and the President.

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George J. Dance, 2020

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