Typewriter Rodeo: Uvalde

Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.

By Kari Anne HoltMay 27, 2022 10:33 amArts & Culture, Texas Standard Original, Typewriter Rodeo

Patricia Lim/KUT

A community member writes on a cross placed for the memorial of 19 students and two teachers outside of the Uvalde Courthouse on May 26, 2022.

There may not be sufficient words to describe the feelings of horror, grief, and anger over the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers. This Typewriter Rodeo poem honors those lost.

Uvalde (by way of Encanto)

We see you
All of you

Xavier
Alithia
Amerie Jo
Annabell
Irma
Rogelio
Eliahana
Eva
Jackie
Jose
Jailah
Makenna
Tess
Maite
Miranda
Jayce
Uziyah
Ellie
Nevaeh
Layla
Lexi

We see how bright you burn
We see how brave you’ve been
All of you all of you all of you
My God, when will it end?

a photo of the typewritten poem on a torn piece of lavendar paper with the slight tinge of a rainbow breaking through the middle of it

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