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// "Burial of the Dead" \\
(( 03/02/02 by X-tabai anada512 ))
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//(I will show you something different...)//
In the deep shadows of a rocky red desert
my father showed me how to shoot,
tucking the rifle under his long arm and
cupping the barrel like a lover's chin.
//Don't aim with your hands,// he said,
//aim with your eyes. Don't lock your elbows,//
he said, //the recoil could break you.//
He cracked the air with a shifted finger,
and far away in the sun-bleached shrubs
a small form exploded in a cloud of blood.
//(I had not thought death had undone so many...)//
Shielding my face, my mind conjured
Medusas reflected in shimmering heat;
no eyes can ignore the petrifying sight.
The acrid smell of silence stretched
dry and brittle across the sword-sharp light.
//Your turn,// he said, holding out the gun.
//(I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing...)//
I tried to explain that my curiousity
had hardened to stone with the rest of me;
I could not speak. My breath was marble.
A spasm of wind spat dirt at my hair
and buried my shoes in shallow sand.
High above my wide, unseeing eyes,
the static blue sky crackled and sang,
//I will show you fear in a handful of dust.//
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