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Ferris, Jim / Facts of life
(2005)
Poet of cripples, p. 7
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Poet of Cripples Let me be a poet of cripples, of hollow men and boys groping to be whole, of girls limping toward womanhood and women reaching back, all slipping and falling toward the cavern we carry within, our hidden void, a place for each to become full, whole, room of our own, space to grow in ways unimaginable to the straight and the narrow, the small and similar, the poor, normal ones who do not know their poverty. Look with care, look deep. Know that you are a cripple too. I sing for cripples; I sing for you. 7
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