Seventy-Seven Minutes

Uvalde

While Arrendondo fiddled…
Arrendondo fiddled with keys

Seventy-seven minutes…
Parents threatened
threatened with arrest
threatened with tasing
over the sound of screams
children’s screams
and the man-child’s gunshots
Parents forced to bear
forced to hear, to listen
forced for seventy-seven minutes
forced to listen to the screams
the screams… the screams… the…

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