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Share The news said an unidentified man died today in an accident involving several stray bullets, fired from the gun of a plainclothes cop, embedded in the man’s chest and head and arm, and though this man looked just like you, I thought not of you, but of your mother who raised three kids she outlived and still kept living, and I know this man the news said died is not you because you died long before today, but I couldn’t help but think of your mother and pray that she’s okay. Source: Poetry (January/February 2026)
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