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4.19.95: a father's rant

the murrah building:
bombed, now, fifteen years ago...
I had to tell my daughter!!

schools are not teaching
even the simplest of facts:
self-fulfilling prophecies;

dooming our nation,
dooming this entire world
to re-live what they've left out.

i am telling her,
taking her hand, walking her
through the cycles we repeat:

first at ruby ridge,
again at waco, texas:
the government made mistakes.

tim mcveigh was there
when the davidians burned.
watching, blaming, sowing hate.

two years to the day
he reaped his hatered's harvest
in oklahoma city...

the murrah building:
bombed, now, fifteen years ago...
i had to tell my daughter...

schools are not teaching
even the simplest of facts:
self-fulfilling prophecies.
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