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School Fire, 1947

Tom Feulner

Children in the schoolyard tossing
torches of the Iliad, Paradise Lost,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Pages of a book burn one by one
like lips curling back in horror, the smile
of some sinister and final being.

Sister Rosemary must have been smoking
in the library again, but she didn’t make it
to heaven in a blaze of books because

there is no heaven. And cigarettes
don’t burn down libraries,
naughty, sinful children do.

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