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# (Untitled)
- URL: https://www.richardjnewman.com/microblog/untitled-11/
- Published: 2025-01-18T11:20:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-18T11:24:37.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
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## Lines That Didn't Make The Cut

Across the span, as counterpoint, a flock  
of pigeons lifted into flight. “We get,”  
he said, “a bullet each. If you do not die,  
you do not die.” Nothing I regret  
hurts more than this: I watched the cloudless sky  
refuse to darken; I did not watch their guns  
refuse to kill, or the rising of all those suns.