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The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues. Submission Guidelines: Send previously unpublished poems in the body of an email to nvneditor@yahoo.com OR to nvneditor@gmail.com. Use "Verse News Submission" as the subject line. Send a brief bio. No payment. Authors retain all rights after 1st-time appearance here. Scroll all the way down left to read the fine print.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

POPE ACCEPTS ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA'S RESIGNATION

or 
A SLIGHT MISREADING OF MARK 10:14
by Ed Shacklee


The Lord suffered children to come to him,
but his priest made the boy give his bum to him;
and the Pope was his shield and his buffer
as he came so the children would suffer.


Ed Shacklee is a public defender who represents young people in the District of Columbia.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 14 by 14, the Flea, the Raintown Review and Shot Glass Journal, among other places.
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