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unlike the three monkeys
An original poem by MaryJane Nordgren
unlike the three monkeys
we have not well shut
our mouths from speaking evil
but we have blinded and deafened
ourselves to the daily unwelcome
and all-too-often peril lived
by more than half our fellow
human beings