we should ever
come by the right
to posthumously
call someone an
extraordinary individual?
The measure
cannot be
whether or not
their heart
was pure
or indivisible,
for the question
is not that it came
to be broken—
or when, or how
often—but rather,
how uniquely?
How instructive—
moreover, how edifying
a sermon
was the sound
which we heard in its
barbarous blasting?
How seen did we feel
as we sifted
through the shatters,
and how beautifully
pointless was their
pitiable pattern?
