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Amanda Gorman’s poem on Texas shooting has gone viral!

“Honoree Amanda Gorman accepts an award onstage during Variety’s Power of Women Presented by Lifetime at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 30, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.” Photo Credit: © Emma McIntyre, Getty Images for Variety via USAToday + MSN.

Amanda Gorman’s poem on Texas shooting has captivated the internet

From USAToday via MSN:

Tuesday’s school shooting has left many people at a loss for words, overwhelmed with emotion. In her latest poem, Amanda Gorman is capturing those feelings and transforming the speechlessness into stanzas. 

“The poet and activist, 24, took to social media Tuesday to share the gun violence-focused verse.”

The poem that has gone viral, from Poet Amanda Gorman’s Tweet:

Schools scared to death.

The truth is, one education under desks,

Stooped low from bullets;

That plunge when we ask

Where our children

Shall live

& how

& if

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Posted by Steve on May 25, 2022 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

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