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# Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut #2
- URL: https://www.richardjnewman.com/microblog/lines-that-didnt-make-the-cut-1/
- Published: 2025-08-26T10:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-26T17:01:10.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
- Tags: Microblog

**Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut #2**

They can’t be less inhuman than they are.  
 The line of people leaving, a living scar  
 across the flesh that was our home, stretched far   
beyond where I, at six years old, could see.  
 Even now, that child breathes in me,  
 riding his father's shoulders, hiding the jar  
 of colored shells he feared they’d confiscate  
 beneath the coat his mother wrapped him in.