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"Poor Hope."

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"Which is worse?

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The lieutenant raising his rifle
toward the astonished women

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and children, jammed
into the bomb crater.

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Raising it, not even aiming.

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Just carelessly beginning to do
it the way you'd rake a lawn,

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you start anywhere.

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That, o when I saw a boy
in a department store

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with his mother, he was skipping
along going, toot, tot, toot.

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When the mother saw me, I could
see her flinch about something.

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And when I passed
them, she cracked him.

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Him not me, across the
mouth, stunning him terribly.

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Hissing, don't you
know where you are?

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Which is worse?

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To be in the world with
that, or with that?

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Or is it that there's God and
you think they've killed him?

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Then the dread, God, did you
really say hit them, kill them?

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And to the children and
the mothers, forgive me.

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Then myself, then nothing.

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No sacrament for the people
forgotten in mid-sentence gone,

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except in fuck you,
where they cry.

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God, I have thought two ways up.

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The first is when I felt the
boy's spirit become pain,

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because of me.

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I should have apologized, not
to him or even the mother,

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but to you, I'm sorry.

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And the other is for
the others in the ditch,

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and their torn clothes, just
as the bullets go into them,

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I would go mad.

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And have you seen how men
in toilets at stadiums

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or the movie, stare
into the wall,

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so we won't covet
each other's cocks?

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I would stare into you like
that, and never move again.

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Never let you die again.

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Never let you be anywhere else.

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Staring, watching you boil
helplessly back and forth

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on the ceiling.

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Don't move, trying to
electrocute yourself

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on the wire.

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Stay where you are.

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Trying to slice your body
to pieces on the fluttering

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cobwebs, don't die on me."

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This one has terrible
allergies for me.

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I thought it was the place
you came when you were sick.

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Anyway, it's in my
throat a little bit.

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