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Sticks and Stones

by  The Walrus

Posted: Sunday, December 21, 2003
Word Count: 36




The startling ease
With which
Those from afar
Choose to sling
Missiles of morality.
It is a common fact, afterall
That glass houses
Are fragile.

Wiser perhaps
With or without the facts,
To hold one’s counsel.