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[9] CAMPUS ELEGY If I cried out who would hear me up there among the angelic orders? —Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies We heard the news, we saw on video how they sat in rows, arms linked, no chorus sounding anguish from among their ranks. Or pain, or anger—not that the formality of silence cannot mean something seethes beneath the bludgeoned front. Attack the head, the ribs; pour acids down the throat and scald the eyes. What civil liberties we take. A student writes, They’re human too, they hurt from all this fear. Long days ahead of vigil; flushed nights spiked with sudden chill. All’s overcast . Phalanx of blue: faces that look, as they close in, like neighbors’, brothers’, uncles’— What you see, before the bodies fall to blows. ...

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