The line, "My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite", makes me think of the wall as being connected to the man because of it's black color. He reads the names on the wall "half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke", leads me to think that part of him died with

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Approximate Word count = 442
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)