all the old communications components

In the stall, _____the three strangers
were filling paper bags with internal modems.
They had taken all the old communications components
that lay on top of hay bales
and, on their hands and knees in the straw on the barn floor,
were looking for stray devices.

_____A mouse ran across the rafters,
producing a rustling noise overhead.
One of the men pulled a pistol from his jacket pocket,
and aimed it at the mouse.
His shot reverberated thru the barn. _____

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