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CHILDHOOD: 5 by RICHARD ALDINGTON

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First Line: I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD


I don't believe in God.
I do believe in avenging gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.


That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a chrysalis in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its brght colours,
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.




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