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on love
transmission
The second relives what the
first forgets—
Amnesia to
Inner
eye curves
inward.
extend.
By Allysa Warling
M2, Harvard Medical School
“the opposite of a gun is wherever you point it.”
says a line from the poem i read after
19 children were murdered in a school shooting yesterday.
“there was yet another mass shooting targeting
children and educators at an American school campus.”
says the NBC News anchor. yet another.
see something enough times and you begin to believe it.
(not a lone wolf, but a pack,
a pattern
of attack).
say something enough times and you begin to believe it.
Uvalde. Parkland, Santa Fe.
Sandy Hook, misery.
all the way back to Columbine,
in my home state of Colorado, in 1999
before i was even old enough to understand.
“the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results.”
says a quote
often misattributed to Einstein.
“there is no way to stop this,” says Politico’s
headline, headline, headlines.
the definition [ready] of insanity [aim] is doing the same thing [fire]
over [fire] and over [fire] again [fire].
see something enough times and you begin to believe it.
(not one man, but many,
no broken homes,
just fractured
society).
there is nothing else we can do. nothing else we can do
for you.
say something enough times and you begin to believe it.
throw away life enough times and you’ll forget to
retrieve it.
“good morning, doctor”, says the medical school security guard
each time i pass his desk on my way to class,
or to take a test.
good morning, doctor.
i am not a doctor yet but funny how last week
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