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">The one-eyed fighter prepares for his fight — He’s got to get back to the ring; The wing-less pigeon flaps through the night — She is sure she’ll fly by morning. That beggar kid with his broken limb does Skip with a skippin’ rope in hand; And the gir

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ls who’ve been violated so — They know they’ve got some place to go.</p><p id="49b1">To read the entire poem, and to sign up for TEP’s <b>Poem of the Day</b>, visit <a href="http://theeverydaypoet.com"><i>theeverydaypoet.com</i></a></p></article></body>

We Won’t Stay Down

Image: Water color on paper, J. P. Moriarty

The one-eyed fighter prepares for his fight — He’s got to get back to the ring; The wing-less pigeon flaps through the night — She is sure she’ll fly by morning. That beggar kid with his broken limb does Skip with a skippin’ rope in hand; And the girls who’ve been violated so — They know they’ve got some place to go.

To read the entire poem, and to sign up for TEP’s Poem of the Day, visit theeverydaypoet.com

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