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The Power of Speech

My three year old, of a curiosity,
Or outwardness, which sometimes makes me see
Beyond my fenced-in yard, pointed to a head:
"Who's that? Who's that?" "Just an old man," I said.
"No! An awful, awful, terrible old man!"
She cried. So he climbed his throne while angels ran.

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