Though cleared by historical research, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette and Zora Neal Hurston all went on public record as child abusers in their own lifetimes.

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Recorded Reading (0:41): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ib68fvjcyz5iwxrchvlgz/Posterity-s-Posture.mp3?rlkey=m85jjcio9t6gxzd0ovxq0ymgf&dl=0

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Posterity’s Posture

They will say that you have done
Things which truly you
Never since your life’s begun
Have even had the urge to do

What they don’t know they can’t say
In your good defense —
The elements they can see play
Do not include true innocence

Your higher motivations cannot
Be by others known
Who have no other modes of thought
To judge by but their own

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