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1. Kathie B.

   13 November 2025

   “I Died at the Bataclan in Paris” in commemoration of November 13, 2015
   Poem by Laureano Soares – Montréal, Québec, Canada
   Translated from Portuguese by Katharine F. Baker and Emanuel Melo

   For a brief moment, I felt the pain
   my twitching eyes closed,
   My hands and my fingers clenched
   life poured out of me, I fell to the floor.

   I could no longer hear screams or moans;
   my body was covered with a sheet
   and never again shall I see sunlight,
   I didn’t have the fragile good luck of the wounded.

   I’ll never set foot on the road
   that I saw in the distance with tenderness,
   it was all over. A sordid and sad end.

   I was one of those chosen from among the masses
   a victim of wars, of ideals,
   I was another Abel in Cain’s clutches.

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