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Good Grief

From the March 2009 Print Edition

You said it, Charlie Brown. Though all we get is grief, They only knock us down To topple our belief That one day”one day soon” The meek will all inherit And Lucy change her tune. I don’t think they could bear it The way we do, to rise Knowing we’ll fall again, To think it . . . . Continue Reading »