Views on Pain and Healing 1. New lines drawn in history Deciding on new poems for a new edition. She says. I have plenty, but they seem dated since. I have no new slices of humor. cynical or slapstick. I never believed that, "This event has changed everything" was anything above media hyperbolae until I sat down and there weren't any voices. 2. One small stride toward normalcy For weeks. now over a month a bizarre stunned necessary horrible silence has settled over this place. Saturday night at a sporting event I saw a crack, one slowly spreading like chick beak pounding enamel shell and real New Yorkers emerge again. cynical and beautiful. We booed the halftime juggler.