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NATURE STUDY

  

While you are picking your people

carry a small jar of water.

(This will keep your people fresh.)

To press the people open them out flat.

(It is best to press the centre of the person

with your thumb.)

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

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