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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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