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Charlottesville tiki torches
were mentioned the last one.

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And Charlottesville
is where I'm from.

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This is where I live.

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It's a quiet college town.

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Like many in this
country, with [INAUDIBLE]

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but unlike many in
this country, I guess,

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there are a few statues that
needed to be gotten rid of.

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And it went on, and on, and on.

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This poem was written right
before the statues came down.

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They were still there.

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"Pedestrian Crossing,
Charlottesville."

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A gaggle of girls giggle
over the bricks leading off

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Court Square.

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We brake dutifully and wait.

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But there's at least 20 of these
knob-kneed creatures, blonde

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and curly, still at an age
that thinks impudence is cute.

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Look how they dart and
dither, changing flanks

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as they lurch along,
golden gobbets

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of infuriating
foolishness, or pure joy,

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depending on one's disposition.

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At the moment, mine is sour.

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This is taking far too long.

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Don't they have minders?

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Just behind my shoulder
in the city park,

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the Southern general still
stands, stonewalling us all.

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When I was their age, I
judged Goldilocks nothing

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more than a pint
sized criminal who

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flounced into other's lives,
then assumed their clemency.

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Unfair, I know, my aggression.

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To lump them into a
gaggle, silly geese.

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When all they're guilty
of is being young so far.

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