Explanation for evil, number fourteen: Why the blister bug has always spit out venom.(Poem)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 2/16/2000
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Author: Walker, Jeanne Murray
Because there was a time before TV
when children had hands that jumped like frogs,
because in those days there was summer
when children were not dropped off
and picked up in Toyotas,
but flung themselves in and out
to the slam of screen doors,
because summer grew luxurious green hair,
because children had nothing to do
but to lie down in the green hair
and rest their cheeks on warm rocks
and spy out the land,
arranging marriages between ...
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