My Cross! Poem by Stephen Crane

My Cross!

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Your cross?
The real cross
Is made of pounds,
Dollars or francs.
Here I bear my palms for the silly nails
To teach the lack
—The great pain of lack—
Of coin.

Stephen Crane
Friday, March 20, 2015
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