<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Another conundrum to
unravel. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">This one really has
me grasping at straws. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I realize the
title ‘Against Cruelty’ has got to
be part of the key to understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">So this is a awork against cruelty. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">An insurrection may
stand for the burning of books. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The enforcement of
media control in the schools <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">to control our souls
and or bodies. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Sheol speeks of the
Jewish dark place <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">that it is reportat
that we may go to in death, <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">regardless of piety.
<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Maybe this alludes
to death in the concentration camps of
world war Two <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">where furnaces were
used to consume the bodies. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Anyway, Sheol
would not be a nice place to go. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Machine guns<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">, corrupted
flags (Cruelty done in the name of
patriotism), <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">They are using them as
a way of doing their cruelty. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">To justify the
burning of books. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">To control our
minds. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">This takes place
3,000 miles away. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">A symbol of Nazi
Germany, perhaps. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Also a statement of
the isolation of death. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">In all this cruelty
hope and longing cannot be extinguished. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Despite the
exhaustion. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">And she hopes that Sheol, or the after life or not <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">will be a condition
of peace where cruelty does not linger. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> </span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">But, there is the
remembering of our childhood when hope
and beauty could be found in the innocents of a candy bar. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The whispers woven
into flowering hair <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">may be an allusion
to the crown of thorns <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">that Jesus wore on
the cross. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Maybe it speaks of the sacredness of life and death.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> </span></p>
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23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Against
Cruelty</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">by
Joan Myles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The
insurrection glued my eyes open </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Lit
the lamp of my veins in the frozen light </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I
watched Sheol swaying in air screaming white fire</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">3000
miles away and all around me isolated </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Now
they hand out machine guns and corrupted flags</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Readying
to seize our books to claim our bodies </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">because
there’s no vaccine against cruelty</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">But
there is always the goodness I once found </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">inscribed
on a scroll tucked inside a box of Kix</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">and
the sacred whisper woven loosely </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">into
human hair like a crown of flowering thorns</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">And
there is always longing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">amid
eternal tides of stardust and exhaustion </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">and
if we can keep anything let it be these</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none">sweet
and sad and urgent leading us to a place of deep dark peace</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author</p>
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