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Hours after news broke that at least 14 are dead following a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, poet Amanda Gorman tweeted a widely circulated new verse about the chaos, carnage and fear of the event:

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

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

— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman)

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