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Two realities

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Bodies were lying for weeks in the streets.

We couldn't bury dead people.

We tried not to watch them.

It was more important to save our minds.

Burying the dead equalled being killed.

The shelling was non-stop.

We all stayed in the basement.

We cooked food on a fire.

We lived off what we could find in the gardens.

When the food got low we decided to leave.

Everyone brought everything they had.

We all shared everything.

It helped us not to lose hope.

We waited for weeks for the weather to improve.

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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