The First Day of Kindergarten
by Andre John Narbonne
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The first day of kindergarten
the teacher put a candle in my head
I knew she was an ogre
and that the candle would summon other ogres
But still I could not
snuff it and the candle never dimmed
And the ogres came
in time
to feast on their
glowing boy
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