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Sep 2016
I don’t want to be present
when any child figures out

that much of our world
has descended into

dead toads atop a white pillow
where those children must lay their heads

to sleep at night for
the next eight decades.
Doug Potter
Written by
Doug Potter  Iowa
(Iowa)   
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