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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{WERE THE CHILDREN ALSO WICKED}
  sara croft steptoe


Were the children also wicked,
children born in Sodom and Gomorrah

who shrieked at the touch
of the Jealous God?

I must know this, boys and girls --
did you ever dream a dream,

like metal in a furnace,
more wicked than the One who

turned your arms and legs to flame?