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Dorthy’s Ruby Red Slippers

November 12, 2009
By ccleavesx33 SILVER, Freeport, Maine
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This is a world of war,

a world of terror,

a wold of shame.

This place is very frightening,


very dreary,


all but sane.

We can no loner run,

no longer hide,

cannot take anymore.

If only we could leave,
click our heels,
and be gone.
This world would be over, no more cries;
a new dawn.

© Anna Y., St., Robert, MO

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