wheresoever that road bends by that farm
we go not that way
our mothers say wheresoever he may walk
turn him to hell and head home
we point at him laughing neither jesus nor
god in heaven set a place for you
a prize goes to the boy pitching the nearest
stone we children conspire a ring to throw
tom paine we chant tom paine new york in
summer is the coolest place youll ever know
look toward us you monster and our fathers
will thrash you once more
J. E. Robinson is the author of the young adult novel Skip Macalester, of The Day Rider and Other Stories: A Collection, and of How Hair Changes before Expiration: Poems. His plays have appeared in Alaska, in Louisville, Kentucky, in Saint Louis, Missouri, and in New York City off-off-Broadway, most recently with SOLEDAD featured at Theater for the New City. He teaches history at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in Saint Louis.
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