Jim Brooks

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    Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?
    —Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)

    The worthy poor. The very very worthy
    And beautiful poor. Perhaps just not too swarthy?
    Perhaps just not too dirty nor too dim
    Nor—passionate.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)