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This next poem is called "The
Day the Children Took Over."

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Which is a poem about
the end of the world.

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And though the sky was
bright, snow fell down.

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Children ran out.

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Mothers read letters that said
the world would end in fire.

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Snow fell on driveways,
on trestles and trees.

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It fell on lovers
locked together.

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In bedrooms and
back seats of new

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Buicks out of sight
in green wild fields.

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And yes, it fell
with a vengeance

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on statesmen who predicted
peace in our time.

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Priests who left the
pulpit for a fine new wife

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walked about pure and
heavy beneath the wet sun.

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All around town,
children ran out.

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Rolled their snow.

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Stuck buttons, carrots, old hats
and bits of coal on shapeless

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lumps.

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To create life in
their own image.