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Take That, Brother!


Take That, Brother!

 

It might seem foolish, and not too Darwinian,

But too often, I prefer to hurt myself

Rather than willingly hurt another.

And it hurts me even more

When I hurt any friend

That I think of as my own special brother.

 

But there is always the probability

That when my brother is hurting me,

I will make myself pain free

By sending my special brother

To the bottom of the sea.

 

D. B. Clark

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D. B. Clark

Retired psychologist who has written more than fifteen thousand poems and one hundred books

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