You can freeze-frame the exact moment. The timer reads 2:43 pm. It's one small moment when security is relaxed. That the special guest turned out to be the President of the United States is barely credible, yet there he strides, there he smiles, and there, at precisely 2:43 pm, he raises his arm in a gesture of solidarity with those both sides of the great divide. And how often over these past nine days has that face been magnified, probed, the eyes zoomed-in on as though they contained the code to hope itself. By 2:44 pm of course the President was dead.
Sue Clayton
20/3/2022 06:22:04 am
Who'd want to be a president, or prime minister, of any country. Even run of the mill politicians aren't safe these days. Comments are closed.
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