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Just because these tears were on your face

doesn’t mean they’re yours.

The tree in your mind

is mine.

The redistribution of tears

reflects our collective commitment

to storm and stress,

to attitudes befitting participants in sports

and sports writing.

The conventions governing weeping in novels

do not apply to weeping done on-camera

or in teams.

Eldest sons dispossessed of ancestral tears

mock the tears of the nouveaux riches.

You call that weeping?