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“We Are All Pursued by Bears, Mr. Hall!”
-Emily Grace Wilkinson
Encouraged by Amanda Paige Smith
Two of my merriest students,
alluding to Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
And so we are - by bears of destiny
Instead of strident men contemptuously
Bears of our dreams, bears of our own night-bears
Who snuffling ask, “Don’t you remember me?”
And who can bear it? Remembrances there
Of an unfortunate long-ago bear
Whom we casually dismissed without a care
The bear was sent off-stage - it was unfair!
We bear the cares of life, oh, don’t you see -
We are pursued by bears of destiny
Or is it hamsters…penguins…three-toed sloths…?
