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The Things That Boys Do

Boys do boys BREAKS toys. Knick knack paddy wack. Give. A dog. A bone. Some say the things that boys do are wrong and even more wrong still. Pushing a go cart up a steep steep hill. Wrestling down steps and falling. Breaking bones. Being home alone. Fire crackers one two three STOP spitting On me. REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT Boys even when they're right they're wrong. Boys are strong. They are Triumphant on mix martial arts and wrestling night. They need a place here in SOCIETY. They need their own show and tell month. What week? What's a week? Fighting through one trillion trillion jeers. Not wanting to show their fears. THE MEDIA COMES THE QUICKER Fearing vulnerability boys are nothing but the brunt of solid steel with DIAMOND Spikes. Many boys are MELLOW but spell WE DO RAISE HELL. Some might Think boys do things for SPITE. Such as staying alive? Or flying a kite? Boys but when dark is night stay inside. At DIFFICULT times they fight even when They're right thinking they are strong. MAYBE they are wrong? Wrestling tearing fisting clenching cursing spitting stomping reaching for his own Fate. Suffering alienation and hate. What he wants he gets one way. (Sparing no grace) or another. All in all in all. Some boys walk a CHALK line and are fine. In the light of the life of things this is how it is. Boys are STRONG. They go long. THE MEDIA THE CONDEMNATION THE VILIFICATION: Boys are bursting through malls tearing down walls shooting guns on the run. Nothing but boys will be boys. Nothing is truth until it is seen through the eye of a boy Keen. Gangs, tussles and physical rebuttals. There those tails wagging of puppy dogs, Yeah boy! You got SWAGGER you got sway. Football gear and baseball cards yeah all Hard. Make way for shooting hoops hanging on stoops TRACES OF MANHOOD TO DATE. BEEN NEVER A MAN WHO HASN'T BEEN A BOY. ENJOY!! GOOD FATE!!

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