[stylist] Poem - "Frogs" - Finalish Draft

[William L Houts]

Thanks, Linda!


--Bill




On 8/15/2015 10:32 AM, Lynda Lambert via stylist wrote:
> Bill, I loved this poem - uncomfortable feelings mingled with regret - 
> - maybe most kids can relate to this. I sure do.  Lynda
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> -----Original Message----- From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 12:25 PM
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> Cc: Barbara HAMMEL
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem - "Frogs" - Finalish Draft
>
> 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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> Sent from my iPhone
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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.
>>
>> --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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>> -- 
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>> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"