Today's OneWord: Riots

Joe slammed a broken bottle into an old man's ear and watched the front lobe burst like a bloated bloody balloon. Fragments of tissue and aural percussion stained the shards. He felt sick all of a sudden, surrounded by overturned cars with their dashboards on fire and Coldplay's "Us Against the World" playing in the background. Painfully tranquil music as people dressed like him and battered like him and unshaven like him danced on top of hydrants screaming, "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!"

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