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A Christmas Lament
O Come Emmanuel, Day-Spring, come and cheer Our spirits by thine Advent here Disperse the gloomy clouds of night And death’s dark shadows put to flight In the midst of joy to the world and hark the herald angels sing In the midst of employee seminar/Christmas lunch, taking pictures by the tree, ten minute break Shots rip flesh and fourteen families apart Blood pooling on the floor, water pouring from fire sprinklers, wails of agony War comes to sleepy San Bernardino, much like it came to Pearl Harbor, seventy-four years ago today Much like it came to Bethlehem over…