The wind wept
In West Virginia
As fifty-seven men
Sons, brothers, fathers
Rushed through air
To taste profit and life
Spilled up the ground
We must fashion an instrument
Both blunt and precise
It must shape the force
Of a thousand, thousand fists
Into a single blow
The night hardened
In El Barrio
As the blue steeled
.38 police special pressed
Its copper-jacketed insult
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