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Three other parts
from this section,

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"Witnessing from Afar the New
Escalation of Savage Power."

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This was written during the
Gulf War, "She was getting old,

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had seen a lot, knew a
lot, but something innocent

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enlivened her,
upheld her spirits.

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She tended a small altar, kept
the candle shielded there,

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or tried to.

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There was a crash and throb
of harsh sound audible always,

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but distant.

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She believed she had it in
her to fend for herself,

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and hold despair at bay.

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Now when she came
to the ridge and saw

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the world's raw gash reopened,
the whole world a valley

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of steaming blood,
her small wisdom

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gutted in the uprush,
rubble dust, meat pulse.

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Darkness and the
blast leveled her.

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Not her own death, that was not
yet, the deafening down rush,

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shock, shame, no
memory, no knowledge,

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nor dark imagination,
had prepared her for."

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