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LIFE STYLES

  

Madam, I must object to what you are

teaching your son. I don’t agree with all

this butterfly collecting. Since you brought

it up. You see, I think it really is

so frightfully unhealthy.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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