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<poem title="THE PAPER CHILD">
<author>Philip Burton</author>
<date>09/02/2008</date>
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<line>To do a paper-round would make me weep</line>
<line>having to groan up the steepest hill</line>
<line>with massive bags freshly filled</line>
<line>with Sunday mags to make me sag</line>
<line>and news, not happy, always sad.</line>
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<line>But I&#039;d rather carry the daily news</line>
<line>from here to streets in Timbuctoo</line>
<line>than have been a young Victorian kid</line>
<line>and have to suffer what they did.</line>
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<line>Just think of a child chimney-sweep</line>
<line>climbing up a dust-filled hole</line>
<line>gripping a slippy black wall</line>
<line>without a light or a bite</line>
<line>to eat, and butterflies inside you!</line>
<line>I don&#039;t know how their boss could sleep.</line>
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