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Putting the No Cash Offer to Bed


by Darryl Price


He will return your children's hearts
to them and not to you, but they 
will see again. He will row your 
children across the fiery lake

without losing a single one
to the sly singing fish below.
He will accept no cash, but food 
for the poor. He will stand before 

your children's enemies, like an
epic storm, and rain tornadoes
down upon their helmeted heads, 
to protect your children from all 

forms of awful harm, but you must  
never again abuse them; none 
believes in your kind of love 
for children; the devoted lies, 

the greedy rendezvous with the 
corrupted wizards of reason 
for more money, affairs, and tall 
false magic. He will accept no

cash, but only loving kindness 
for the sick, helpless and lonely 
among your streets and villages.
He will restore your children's minds

to them and not to you, but they
will think again. He will show your
children how to face their fears with
humor and courage and without

self-pity. He will give them music 
and laughter without making
them sign away their souls to traditions 
that trapped them in the past.  
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