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When I was in high school our English teacher required us to memorize Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem, Trees.  “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,  A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.”  It continues on for several more verses but I won’t share the complete poem with you because the first few lines are all that are required to make it very evident that Mr. Kilmer wasn’t picturing…..

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