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'She is five and she’s taking no hostages...'

Poem: Tell me now

'She is five and she’s taking no hostages...'

by Dana Littlepage Smith 20th September 2024

She is five and she’s taking no hostages.

She wants to know why the sparrows die; 

why her baby brother sleeps with sewage.