Cuts and Bruises

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Dirty hands make for a clean living,

say the souls who have strayed 

beyond 

the classroom and school yard.

To the wooded places and colored fields,

under rocks, on skateboards and tree-houses,

is an education that transcends

what the discerning mind does judge.

Maybe 

there is more to learning than can be taught.

Maybe 

those who are told they have failed just see falling in a different way.

The nature of the lesson

is what children and wanderers already know,

and where we long 

to return again.

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