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Today’s Poem: The Skippery Boo

Today’s Poem: The Skippery Boo

On the topmost spine / Of the tallest pine, / Hung the fabulous Skippery Boo.

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Edvard Munch, Two Children on Their Way to the Fairytale Forest, 1901 (Wikimedia Commons)

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