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<h1>Reprise in Blue </h1>
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<p class="byline">Carter Vance </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The victims of history speak not <br>to their plight, they speak not <br>through arrows and gunshots, <br>through shirt factory fires, <br>through schoolhouse stands and <br>rural church steeple bombings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They do not speak, for they are <br>gone: no labour law reform, no signed bill <br>of housing redress, no so-called progress <br>shall make them whole.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">No signal can cut through the <br>white noise cloth down draping <br>post-to-post in passage rites, <br>warnings unheeded by the number-crunching
clan, <br>except in their moments of unearned regret.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Except in their mirrored lenses making <br>new liberal order of darker voids, <br>starring deep not long into the cold maw <br>depths of the thing, but to some <br>construction of tabulated script, some</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">monument made in ignorance of due <br>cost on plains of gold where greater <br>men than they shall ever hope to be <br>starved for lack of compass to guide <br>to berry bush and water spring.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They stare not into grim meaning of <br>coin collections, nor into spindled red <br>lines on FHA maps, nor into the <br>thin ice-water stew they ladle-heap <br>upon the cups and plates of sickly figures. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They stare not; they cannot face the
victims, <br>the bombings, the fires, the bullets, the
arrows, <br>they cannot face the calm wake of them <br>all the more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They cannot stare too deep to history's
gaze, <br>it is too disorderly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Still, voices emerge from riot smoke, <br>casting arms and rising as a last <br>held note of Coltrane, of Shorter, held</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">in blue midnight shade of strung <br>Christmas tinsel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They go unheeded as ever, but <br>cease not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">It makes nothing the better, <br>but has some conscience</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">at least.</span></p>
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