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Kids have to experiment with power, discovering their strength, measuring their effect on the world. I once found Charlie, of a similar age perhaps, smashing some glass fish tanks that had been stacked in the yard for hosing down. I understood the glory of the shattering, the music of it, the satisfaction... but stopped him right smart, anyway--because... that's mom-power.
posted by
Ciel
on September 29, 2020 at 6:58 AM
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Re: Taps
Taps believe me it gets harder, Of course if things really happened it is all there in the mind.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 28, 2020 at 10:18 AM
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You've still got the knack, or maybe it's that abundance of sense that young folks won't give a plugged nickel for. I've got some good sense, it's just that sometimes I can't remember what it is.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 27, 2020 at 7:56 PM
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Hopefully, you were able to vent everything that day.
posted by
Annicita
on September 27, 2020 at 11:44 AM
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Re: Sea Gypsy
I really wanted to do something different, but times were hard.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 27, 2020 at 10:05 AM
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True FS.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 27, 2020 at 10:03 AM
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Re: Goldiec
Thank you.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 27, 2020 at 10:03 AM
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Re: Strange how that destructive impulse seizes little boys - it always ticked
Yes Pat once I shot at a sparrow and killed a sky lark. I asked Mother to cook it as I thought it was a penance. I plucked it, she cooked it. I was aghast she had not taken the inside out.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 27, 2020 at 10:02 AM
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Strange how that destructive impulse seizes little boys - it always ticked
me off when I caught them shooting their BB guns at sparrow and robins. The problem was, sometimes they didn't miss.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 27, 2020 at 6:59 AM
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This poem makes me think about how death around us strikes us in so many different ways.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 27, 2020 at 6:28 AM
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....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on September 27, 2020 at 4:15 AM
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Life is life no matter how we look at it! 
posted by
Goldiec
on September 27, 2020 at 3:43 AM
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C.C.T
I understand.
posted by
BC-A
on September 26, 2020 at 11:44 PM
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It was the war, no doubt. Does things to kids.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 26, 2020 at 11:53 AM
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