These are the facts of Mark Barton’s shooting spree at the Security building in Atlanta, Georgia.I sat in front of my TV in total shock as this eposide played itself out, then wrote this poem. The end came at the BP station near where I lived. My son had just been there to gas up his car.
At two-fifty PM in Buckhead today,
In the Security building where stocks are played.
With dead calm unfeeling eyes,
He took innocent people by surprise.
He shot them down one by one.
Where fortunes are lost and fortunes are won.
While four lay dying from their wounds,
He ran to building number two.
It was five there who cruelly died,
While many were wounded tho left alive.
Mark Barton was that mad mans name
So much evil in that distorted brain
Now a startling new discovery is made
In Henry county his family lay dead
Two children and step mother at home in their beds
And these were not the first of the crimes
Hatched in that evil tormented mind
At Wiess Lake in ninety-three,
His wife and her mother were brutally slain,
Tho Barton was never officially blamed.
Blunt force and hacked with hatchet or knife.
His girl friend gave him an alibi.
Now she is the present wife to die.
Terrified people have now left the scene,
Only the dead in the buildings remain.
Surrounding counties have answered the call.
All streets are covered and all the roads.
No one has a clue where Barton will go.
Five long hours have taken their toll.
Now spotted on I- Seventy-Five,
They have called for help to take him alive.
But at BP station on ninety-two
Pulled over in his Green Arrow Star van,
He placed his weapon against his head.
Mark Barton has calmly shot himself dead.
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