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Date Posted: 11:23:45 05/10/01 Thu
Author: Ivory
Subject: A Prayer For Children of Violence

We pray for the children who sneak Popsicles before supper, who erase holes
in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who
stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who can't bound down the
street in a new pair of sneakers, who never "counted potatoes," who are born
in places where we wouldn't be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who
live in an X-rated world.

We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money. And we pray for those
who never get dessert, who have no safe blanket to drag behind them, who
watch their parents watch them die, who can't find any bread to steal, who
don't have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures aren't on anybody's
dresser, whose monsters are real. We pray for children who spend all their
allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick
at their food, who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the
bed, who never rinse out the tub, who get visits from the tooth fairy, who
don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church and
scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can
make us cry.

And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat
anything, who have ever seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who
go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, who live and move, but have no
being.

We pray for children who want to be carried and for those who must, who we
never give up on and for those who don't get a second chance. For those we
smother and . . . for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to
offer it.

In Memory of........ Natalie Brooks, student age 12

Paige Ann Herring, student age 12

Stephanie Johnson, student age 12

Brittany R. Varner, student age 11

Shannon Wright, Teacher age 32

This is in memory of the children and teacher killed in the shootings on
Tuesday, March 24, 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

You don't have to, but we ask that you please send this to everyone you
know. If this gets to the town of Jonesboro, I'm sure they will be grateful
to know that we all care.

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