<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Against Writing about Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I think of the many people<br>who privately despise children,<br>I can't say I'm completely shocked,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">having been one. I was not<br>exceptional, uncomfortable as that is<br>to admit, and most children are not</div><div style="margin:10px 0">exceptional. The particulars of <br>cruelty, sizes Large and X-Large, <br>memory gnawing it like</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a fat dog, are ordinary: Mean Miss<br>Smigelsky from the sixth grade;<br>the orthodontist who </div><div style="margin:10px 0">slapped you for crying out. Children<br>frighten us, other people's and <br>our own. They reflect</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the virused figures in which failure<br>began. We feel accosted by their<br>vulnerable natures. Each child turns</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into a problematic ocean, a mirrored<br>body growing denser and more<br>difficult to navigate until</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sunlight merely bounces<br>off the surface. They become impossible<br>to sound. Like us, but even weaker.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erin+Belieu">Erin Belieu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390072" data-title="Against Writing about Children de Erin Belieu" data-description="When I think of the many people who privately despise children, I can't say I'm completely shocked, having been one. I was not exceptional, uncomfortable as that is to admit, and most children are not exceptional. The particulars of cruelty, si..."></div> </div> </div>

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