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by Vidal D\u2019Costa<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Oh! What a fool I\u2019ve been!\u2019 thought John, as he lay bleedin\u2019 outside a shack, [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.8″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.8″] by Vidal D\u2019Costa \u2018Oh! What a fool I\u2019ve been!\u2019 thought John, as he lay bleedin\u2019 outside a shack, Blood streamed from the gapin\u2019 stab wounds on his neck an\u2019 from his back. The young man\u2019s troubles had begun the day he\u2019d started visitin\u2019 the matka den outside his tuition. He\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBlood streamed from the gapin\u2019 stab wounds on his neck an\u2019 from his back.
\nThe young man\u2019s troubles had begun the day he\u2019d started visitin\u2019 the matka den outside his tuition.
\nHe\u2019d indulged in it just for fun.
\nBut, it\u2019d slowly turned into an addiction.
\nSoon, he was gamblin\u2019, tryin\u2019 his luck at casinos.
\nSometimes he\u2019d win, other times Lady Luck dealt the hardest blows.
\nSpeakin\u2019 o\u2019 blow, he was soon doin\u2019 that too,
\nHuffin\u2019 an\u2019 dealin\u2019, his greed for money soon grew.
\nPickin\u2019 up tricks o\u2019 the trade, he could easily give the cops a slip,
\nAn\u2019 his poor parents couldn\u2019t save \u2019im, cuz he was in too deep!
\nBut one night on an isolated beach, he got into a fight with some shady folk,
\nThey\u2019d cheated John, not paid for their coke.
\nIt\u2019d ended brutally an\u2019 now he lay gaspin\u2019 in the blood-stained sand.
\nHe couldn\u2019t believe that this was the end!
\nJust a boy he was, so much he could\u2019ve offered.
\nBut he chose the wrong path an\u2019 for this, he suffered.<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
(Writer is second year student at Parvatibai Chowgule College, Margao.)<\/h5>\n
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