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Refusal to Mourn the Deaths at Texas A&M | Poem

 
 
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A poem a day to the Millennium December 5, 1999
 

Refusal to Mourn the Deaths at Texas A&M


 
 
Wasted lives

submerged in herd consciousness

dying by proxy

totemic sacrifices

to instituional values

better that the logs

and bones

were used to house the poor
 

- Ken Peters
 

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