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The Child Is Maladroit

The child is maladroit. you should not take him in. There are too many precious vases on which he might lean. Or he might slip and smack his head against a glass display. Let him stay until he’s grown or he’ll ruin our day. Remember once that just by chance he broke don Cuervo’s toe when he swung that baseball bat and sudden let it go. and hit don Cuervo who was sitting in the front-row seat. and how don Cuervo howled and cursed and almost seemed to bleat. Remember how he fell one day and killed a suckling pig when he was just about to taste a ripening luscious fig and lost his footing on a rock and toppled from his perch and landed on the piglet’s back and caused the sow to dirge. Or when he carried a long stick pretending he could march as if he held a rifle and he skewered Mrs Marge. and how she now is forced to wear a gaudy plastic eye? Please leave him here. He’s maladroit. Or else someone will die. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/maladroit

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Date: 2/20/2018 6:14:00 AM
Great poem Nelson..
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Nelson Diaz
Date: 2/20/2018 11:23:00 AM
Thanks. Much appreciated.

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