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"Soldiers Aim at Us."

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"Soldiers Aim at Us."

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They fire

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as the crowd of women
flees inside the nostrils

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of searchlights

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--may God have a
photograph of this--

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in the piazza's
bright air, soldiers

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drag Petya's body and his head

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bangs the stairs.

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I

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feel through my
wife's shirt the shape

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of our child.

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Soldiers drag Petya up the
stairs and homeless dogs,

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thin as philosophers,

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understand everything
and bark and bark.

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I, now on a bridge, with no
camouflage of speech, a body

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wrapping the body of
my pregnant wife--

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Tonight,

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we don't die and don't die,

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the earth is still,

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a helicopter eyeballs my wife--

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On earth

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a man cannot flip a
finger at the sky.

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Because each man is already

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a finger flipped at the sky.

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