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Paper Doll Chorus Line
Paper Doll Chorus Lines
by Odin Roark
Sun and wind
Imagination’s puppeteer
Turn and twist cutout paper dolls
Strung across blown out window casements
Creating daily enchantment amidst the smoke
How precious
These afternoons
As scissors assist small fingers prepare
The matinée performance
Cutting daily “stay in your homes” flyers
Into dancing friends
Soon
Say the mothers
The war stage
Will be replaced by
Velvet curtained openings
Where make-believe hope
Will find flesh and blood still intact
Renewed hearts respecting
Freedom
Happiness
Soon
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