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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4027 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Burials Gary Blankenship today another came home to be buried as the day before and the day before that and before and before 105 for the 90 days since victory was declared and another will come tomorrow and the next tomorrow and the next and the next an average of better than one a day until October 11 equals the number destroyed homegrown at Oklahoma City * one hundred and five is not a big number even written out in text smaller than the traffic deaths per year crack babies crib deaths broken battered skulls than the three thousand and thirty one known at 911 (to be reached in 2011 not an election year) infinitesimal besides African civil wars Aids religious slayings from Ireland to Tibet and all those between starvation in the barrios even the dictator’s slaughter of his own there or on some other sub-continent where life means less than an unclean pig * we buried pets and broken birds beneath the sour plum in the south orchard we tossed egg-eating dogs and unwanted litters into a sinkhole beyond the dynamite stump I buried my last pet under the bedroom window * we bury our children one a day next to their fathers and their father’s fathers amidst an ocean of flags and an occasional gray stone engraved unknown |
