While he sat reading through her journal, flames licked his eyes. <\/p>\n
Outside a group stood round
\nPointing at the cart
\nGawking at the cart
\nWhispering about the one exposed eye.<\/p>\n
Some spoke of usong their torches to burn the cart, the face, to burn the body to the ground.<\/p>\n
He rushed through the door.
\nHe screamed a sxream he couldn’t hear.
\nFeet touching ground he didn’t feel.<\/p>\n
He waved the book of her words.<\/p>\n
“Tell the family.”<\/p>\n
“Proper burial”<\/p>\n
Somewhere through the crowd he heard, “but she is just a whore.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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