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The Child Labor All-Boys Lederhosen Chorus

CEE

Swallowed up, in the library
Of my pre-Depression era-built school
The exciting, Zane Grey quality of the
LIFE History of the United States
Volume 7 was
“The Age of Steel and Steam”
I always thought that was musical
I used to belt it out, at random,
“The Age of Steeeel and Steeeeeam!”
Mom just chuckled
“Oh, you funny kid!”
“The Age of Steeeel and Steeeeeam!”
Kids leering my way, party masks of clique-y hatred
Kids who didn’t play with me
Or tried to and dismally failed,
Me sitting there with LIFE, Volume 7
Which I didn’t do much, not that one, 'cause
The kids I would’ve hated back, long about 1890,
I could read, died brutal, crummy deaths
Nothing I ever wanted to see,
A dingy, dirty sorta-part of the Past, I thought,
Sitting in the library womb
Asbestos and lead and real, wood splinters
Gazing, cult member, at Custer or Davy Crockett
Rearing lion, before Death,
Now, That’s church, I thought, heartsong
They sure weren’t forgotten
People still play with them

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