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The Anniversaries Year after year, in May, I read The wire service for Kent State news. The veterans spoke sadly, stunned In the empty spring. They retold For students required to attend, Assistants taking roll beside The single security man Who clocked the permitted time. My short, annual story Of not returning ended In car doors closing. Seven Of those years it was raining When I walked outside, counting down The minutes in Pennsylvania And then New York, saying “Now,” Listening to wind and traffic. p86 1FINCKE_pages.qxd 5/21/08 9:31 AM Page 86 ...

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