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Poetry

purr-rat beauty

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2. I am sorry you were witness to that - but grateful you can speak to it's violent truth

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 4, 2022, 05:54 PM

Jul 2022

so many people burying their heads in the spent shells

thank you for reading, I wrote my poem many years ago, revised and finally shared following Uvalde, such horrific tragedy is so very unnecessary....and STILL it happens every time we blink.

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This is a little poem I wrote about an actual news story I covered for the paper Walleye Jul 2022 #1

I am sorry you were witness to that - but grateful you can speak to it's violent truth purr-rat beauty Jul 2022 #2