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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{memorial}
  ashok niyogi


what struck me first
is how far away
the firing positions were
from the walls with bullet-holes

which now need preserving in wooden frames rather innocuous
as a backdrop for tourists with digital cameras

such mayhem
must have required good aim

and then I am engulfed in shame

all my life I have tirelessly endeavored

to teach myself and train
that I could pick up the guns
of those that massacred
and learn their language
so that I could write to them