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Stephen Vincent Benét - For those denounced by their...

For those denounced by their smug, horrible children
For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State,
For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved
To make perfect states. (Stephen Vincent Benét)

For those denounced by their smug, horrible children For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State, For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved To make perfect states.

Stephen Vincent Benét

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