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The streets are not themselves today:Silence leaves them coldThey long for the dance of leathered feetAnd the gossip and chatter of old.Where has the children's screaming gone,The skirmish the battle the play?The schoolyards are aching for childhood sounds:What broomstick has swept them away?The sirens keep piercing the eardrums.(The dead cannot scream for themselves.)