Oh, I'll read you a poem that's now banned and on a censorship
list.
I found out from the latest issue
of the newsletter of the National
Coalition Against Censorship that this poem was singled out
to be banned in the elementary schools of North Kansas City.
It is an anthology called I'm Mad At You,
which is the offending volume.
But the censors particularly pointed to this poem
as being subversive of parental authority.
It's just four lines long.
It's called Mother's Nerves.
A small boy is talking.
He says my mother said if just once more I hear you slam
that old screen door, I'll tear out my hair,
I'll dive in the stove.
So I gave it a bang and in she dove.