Elwyn Brooks

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    In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    God’s Son went home. Among us it is whispered
    He cried the tears of men.
    Feeling, in fact,
    We have no need of peace.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)