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Raising a Toddler While Studying the Films of Alfred Hitchcock: A Sonnet by Stephanie Powers

Could I get away with the perfect murder of Caillou stuffing him in a trunk while we color on top of his tomb? If we’re killing them off, can Miss Elaina die too? Ugga Mugga Daniel Tiger, you think King Friday is flaccid? Letter of the Day is M for Murder, Strangers on a Dinosaur Train Come to think of it! Let’s put Barney on a guillotine! it was chocolate syrup seeping down the tub from Marion Crane ice cream, ice cream we all scream for stabbings in the shower scene making a bedroom fort cosier than the cinematic apparatus but we don’t want no oedipal complexes in this house, kid Norman, almost as sexually deviant than that Cat in the Hat is and that shelf-elf voyeur has a itty-bitty peephole, no doubt sis never ending scene of popcorn fundraisers and VPK admissions You think Mr. Rogers liked the missionary position?

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