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In the afternoon we watched an explosion open its jaws
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& roar out into the street as legs (old, young, fair, aged,
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short ones resting on the shoulders of a father)
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pumped forward on the sun-streaked road.
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Our eyes rose in confusion--through the smoke,
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to the severed hand twitching on the red-stained pavement.
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