Shooting Stars Flashcards
1
Q
First line
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After I no longer speak they break our fingers to salvage my wedding ring
2
Q
Rebecca
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Rachel Ruth Aaron
3
Q
Stars
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on all our brows
4
Q
Mourn for the daughters
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upright as statues, brave
5
Q
You waited
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for the bullet. Fell.
6
Q
Remember these appalling days
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that make the world forever bad
7
Q
One saw I
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was alive. Loosend his belt
8
Q
Between the gap of corpses
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I could see a child. The soldiers laughed
9
Q
They shot
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her in the eye
10
Q
How would you prepare
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to die on a perfect April evening with young men gossiping and smoking by the graves?
11
Q
heard the click.
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Not yet. A trick.
12
Q
After immense
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suffering someone takes tea on the lawn.
13
Q
After the terrible moans
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a boy washes his uniform
14
Q
Tell them I
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sang the ancient psalms at dusk inside the wire and strong men wept
