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Re: Little Boy Bramley
So, this is a whole set you're working up? It's such a great tradition, this cautionary poetry for kids, and it used to be much more seriously intended (you might want to google on the "struwel-peter" poetry of 19th century Germany, in translation. It's really ghastly!) Shel Silverstein has one in "Where The Sidewalk Ends", about "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who would not take the garbage out" -- you can guess what her horrible end was. These pieces of yours are a really worth addition to the genre of "repulsive cautionary verse.".
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