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CHRIS HOLMES

HANG YOUR TEDDY BEAR

Youplayed in the sand childhood.

and made wishes in puddles of
But the sand turns to dirt
and the pudilles grow muddy ..

Act One was fine

hut there is a whole play to be lived ..
Reweave your pigtails into a black negligee
that drapes your moonlit breasts.
Let the flow of a ·waman wash away your Raggedy Ann ..
Let it stain your mind with te.nsi"n.

And on a night when it is very dark
and when the wind pounds you
wi ththe weight of a rusty wor1.d,
take out the rope

and hang your teddy bear ..