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Tanka (Buddha-foot-stone).

Shootings are ultimately part of the harm caused by bullying. One side says the answer is more empathy. The other says the answer is more bullying.

All Such to Life.

"As He Is To Us

Wiry and worn, well-tanned from the task,
the gravedigger goes to his goodly works
with a practiced pace, pick and spade.
On a slope commanding a modest meadow,
he’s put in a potter’s field of his pets;
a flock with fates more fleeting than his,
ones at his mercy, his will and mood.

Rocks and roots must be cleared from the clay,
so he digs deeper, then dutifully fills
with the burden he buries, barrow he tamps.
What’s hard on the hands frees up the head;
prayers need replies, regrets must be purged
by he who decides when suffering stops.
Aloft or aground, God is alone."

—Ted Charnley at Alliterative.net

Now buried in hell with Dante.