GRIEF IN THE USA

Authorities had not yet officially named the suspects in either shooting, but local law enforcement sources in El Paso named the shooter there as Patrick Crusius. Police were also examining a hate-riddled message on the website 8chan, posted around 20 minutes before Saturday’s attack, in which the author expressed sympathy for a white nationalist massacre at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, a few months ago, and which stated: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

By late Sunday morning, the US president, who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, had not addressed the nation in person, with a statement from the White House saying: “Our Nation mourns with those whose loved ones were murdered in the tragic shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and we share in the pain and suffering of all those who were injured in these two senseless attacks. We condemn these hateful and cowardly acts.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-me-in-we/201806/paranoid-schizoid-and-reparative-states

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Effective reparation also involves a distinct form of guilt, one that is not so overwhelming as to induce despair and humiliation. This is a not a punitive or persecutory guilt, but guilt of a different sort. Carveth puts it this way, “If I injure someone and while he bleeds I self-flagellate, that is punitive guilt; but if I put down my cat-o-nine-tails and reach for my first-aid kit and start bandaging, that is reparative guilt.” 

The reparative state marks our move to moral insight and development, and the ability of the child to distinguish between kind and cruel actions. 

I was angry with the cat ,  she bit my leg
I was angry with the kettle, it was slow
I was angry with  the lawn, it needs a mow
So I poured  my  violent rage on you instead

I am angry with the weather, it’s too hot
I am angry with the government  .it’s bad
If I don’t feel angry I get sad
I  throw my pain at you like a gunshot

I have no friends left,I am going mad
They all hate me,I don’t know for what
Is this Hell,I certainly feel hot
Do you think I acted like a cad?

I love you  dearest, please let me come back
I   did not mean  to make your eyes turn black

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/145052/the-choice-of-constraint

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In constrained writing, one writes under a condition. That condition might mean not being allowed to do something—such as not using the letter e—or following a certain pattern. If this definition seems broad, it is. All formal writing operates under some kind of constraint; a traditional sonnet, for example, asks you to manage meter and a rhyme scheme in 14 lines. In this essay, we’ll look at less-familiar uses of constraint, ones that will challenge you in different ways. It may seem counterintuitive to put limitations on your writing, but you may find that a small constraint can make a big difference in soothing your fears of the blank page. It does so by taking some choices away and by demanding that you make new choices.

To illustrate this, I’d like to look at one of my favorite constraints—the abecedarian. Abecedarians are poems in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows the alphabet: A, then B, and so on. The abecedarian is an ancient form; it may be as old as the alphabet itself. You can find abecedarians in the Bible, though you’d have to see Psalm 119 in the original Hebrew to notice that each section is headed by a letter from the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Beth, Gimel …). Contemporary poets have used the alphabet constraint on a grand scale, creating long poems, such as Carolyn Forche’s “On Earth,” and even throughout entire books, such as Inger Christensen’s alphabetand Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping with the Dictionary.