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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{drawing fires}
  miles j. bell


as a child
I drew the usual
stick cars & men
& houses with 4 windows
but then I took
red orange yellow
& black crayons
and scribbled out my pictures
told them I'd drawn
a fire
they were worried &
thought something was
wrong with me
they were right
but none of us
ever found out
what