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A memory

High school math class, November Twenty Second Nineteen Sixty Three:
the news had just broken from Dallas.

The teacher stands at the blackboard demonstrating 
a geometric theorem; chalk clicking white against black
as she works through the meticulous Euclidean logic
with tears running down her face

Sometimes life itself writes a poem.


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