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Oh, I'll read you a poem that's
now banned and on a censorship

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list.

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I found out from
the latest issue

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of the newsletter
of the National

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Coalition Against Censorship
that this poem was singled out

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to be banned in the elementary
schools of North Kansas City.

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It is an anthology
called I'm Mad At You,

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which is the offending volume.

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But the censors particularly
pointed to this poem

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as being subversive
of parental authority.

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It's just four lines long.

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It's called Mother's Nerves.

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A small boy is talking.

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He says my mother said if
just once more I hear you slam

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that old screen door,
I'll tear out my hair,

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I'll dive in the stove.

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So I gave it a bang
and in she dove.

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