James McLain Poems

In defense of small children, priced to pay.
Unsuspecting children, what price must be paid.
To pay such a price they now pay.
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Lookouts chaff the ocean and the sea,
beyond the shore of hope.
Cloud-like smoke it wafts and drifts away.
Waves that stain each reaching soul,
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But here they are here, it's not.
They are they still here ago.
Some other places you can see can not be.
Cast aside reason and logic.
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Poverty is independent!
Is there entertainment in the bondage of?
Every where it is found in abundance.
One is poor or rich as knowledge flows.
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Any man, by breastfeeding the women more than once,
breast milk for one child and she, his uddered other.
Her husband through breast milk to his brother,
was caught breastfeeding by his sister the other woman is.
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Nothing ever made is like a book.
To take the world away.
Nor any corners that you turn,
are like a well worn page.
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My identity is based upon yours.
Dark is the moon and light cinnamon.
Inside the bush, perhaps both.
Climbing the tree just out of reach.
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Hidden in my room, it's my cage
better than jail or their brutal prisons
of this visible
Republican, I am not
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1973, Roe v Wade
As
Unwanted children
by
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