[stylist] Poem - "Frogs" - Finalish Draft

[Barbara HAMMEL]

This makes me think of how bad I feel for squishing worms. I guess I did it quite frequently but only remember the last time. My siblings used to give me to hold and because they wriggled I would hold them so tight I killed the poor things. My sister, who is deathly afraid of worms, thinks it's funny, but to this day I am appalled.
Barbara

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> On Aug 15, 2015, at 08:56, William L Houts via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Good Morning, Droogies,
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> I wrote this a little while ago, but hadn't posted it until now. This one's still kind of painful, as it refers to an event from my teen years which I have yet to llive down entirely.  I feel pretty good about this one, as it's gone through many drafts and I've finally punched it into a shape I can bear without wincing.  As always, your mileage may vary.
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> --Bill
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> *Frogs *
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> Small as infant toes, the frogs
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> enlivened smiling sandss, so close
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> to oceans helix deep. They swarmed the grains,
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> that hopper tribe, like Greeks
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> besieging Troy, though not so fierce.
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> and Then come  I:
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> an anguished boy enshrilled
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> by growing-juice, and infant slights
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> and rage, that demon muse.
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> I plowed them down,  that day of wrath,
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> bestormed those tiny lives,and neither grieved,
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> nor prayed, nor wept a blackened tear.
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> I've staggered years this infant crime
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> while Friends suggest I'm clean and not so lost:
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> and yet I bear a holocaust.
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> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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