When I knew him in the playground, he cried easily.
\nPretend games upset him;
\nhis large eyes, luminous on the point of tears,
\nshone soft and bright.
\nBut when he slipped, later,
\nout of uniform and nameless,
\ninto the brutish, sweat-stained concrete cells
\nand played his own
\nthick brutal games with prisoners there,
\nit was the men who wept. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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