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GOSSIP by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON

First Line: BEFORE I KNEW HOW CRUEL
Last Line: FOR FEAR THEY WILL NOT SING.
Subject(s): GOSSIP;
Before I knew how cruel
Just common talk can be,
I thought that words were singing things
With colors like the sea.

But since I've felt their caustic lash
And know how they can sting,
I hold my breath when words go by
For fear they will not sing.



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