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Son Touches Fathers Gun

Bennett Kenneth got an eyeful Upon touching his dad’s rifle: An eyeful by far more helpful Than Dad’s angry words - a roomful… Or so had reasoned Mister Ken, Who had Bennett taught more with pen, Ben’s tasks to write things up to ten, Such that he would never ask “When”. “But now what could he have written? “Next time, thy flesh shall be beaten, If thou touchest the brown rifle And Dad couldest not rage stifle? “No better a blazing eyeful That makes a twelve-year-old thoughtful.

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