Root Of All Evil

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Root Of All Evil

Had I but
learned by heart,

Romeo’s scathing words

aimed at the anguished
Apothecary:

“I give you poison.
You give me none.”

surely,

God be my witness,

i would have taken

Poetry

as my second language,

and been rendered 

more free of 

money.

. . . j
from the Childhood Remedy and Other Such collection

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