“Somebody Else’s Kids” - A true story, Hayden, L. Torey, Part 3
Sphere Books Limited – 1984
I’m as blind as a bat, focusing on the small font
of a soft-cover book eyes unfocused and weary
I’m nauseous as the author administers shock
upon shock of her experience - the teddy bear
incident when Tomaso attacked the gift bear with
the shears then threatened his teacher with it
The day Lori crept under the classroom cabinet
and stayed there for hours on end until Tomaso
came to sit there and spoke softly to calm her –
but the real problem is stated on p 143, Tomaso
confronting the teacher with the question what
right did she have “To make him care about a
World that did not care about him” and the author
asking whether the pain that she gave by making
the dead-feeling kids care, were any better than
the pain of their inner death which she had relieved,
when Tomaso calmed down he asked the author
to stitch the bear together again and that she did
Then the author wondering why the gift of a teddy
bear evoked such a reaction in the young boy that
he maimed it and threatened her – the pain in his
heart is so much - he can’t accept or understand
love - one theme in the book is Beauty And Pain
and the poetic lines will maim any soft-hearted
Readers studying it…
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