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Half-Masters

Kyle Heger

Be careful. You could
get carpal-tunnel syndrome
from the repetitive stress
of raising and lowering
the flag so often, keeping
up-to-date with whose lives
are worth honoring, whose
deaths worth mourning,
who are the victims, the
martyrs, the heroes. You’d
better take it easy. That
head of yours might just
crack open like a raw egg
if you are faced with the
full implications of flying
the flag at half-mast
for Nancy Reagan,
whose most famous
public service was
to promote the disastrous
“Just Say No” campaign,
while letting the stars and
stripes flutter high in the
breeze after the police
shoot to death a 13-year
old for holding a water
pistol. Why not just give
us all a break and fly the
damned thing at half-mast
permanently instead of
jerking it up and down
like a yo-yo?

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