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Required Reading

This Johnny Appleseed of gloom.

They needed help, you see, not more

Of Emerson on self-reliance.

(Wretched, to have lived before

The art of life became a science.)

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Bradshaw--Beattie--M. Scott Peck

Compose our own creative movement;

Times have changed as you'd expect--

Thus Art gives way to Self-Improvement.

If they lived now and could adopt

Our 12-Step Programs by the score,

Their self-defeating ways would stop,

Their self-esteem, for once, would soar;

They'd have support groups to attend,

Incest Survivor Groups galore--

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