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His faith is shaken.
We went for a ride
And he wasn’t taken."},{"__typename":"ArticleLegacyHtml","tagName":"FIGURE","idAttr":"","className":"","style":"","innerHtml":" $\"\"$ "},{"__typename":"ArticleHeading","headingSubtype":"HED1","idAttr":"","innerHtml":"ROVER TAKEN"},{"__typename":"ArticleLegacyHtml","tagName":"P","idAttr":"","className":"poemSection","style":"","innerHtml":"HE plunges, he lunges
From laps to faces.
We’re scattered and battered
By manic embraces.
He dances. He pants
Down the driver’s neck.
Rover’s in clover —
And we’re a wreck!"},{"__typename":"ArticleLegacyHtml","tagName":"FIGURE","idAttr":"","className":"","style":"","innerHtml":" $\"\"$ "}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"isFranchise":false,"__typename":"Category","displayName":"Poem","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/category/poem/","slug":"poem"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:29499","displayName":"Ethel Jacobson","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ethel-jacobson/","biography":{"default":null,"__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[],"__typename":"Author","slug":"ethel-jacobson"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/06/lets-go/642797/","title":"Let's Go","seoTitle":"Let's Go","dateModified":"2022-05-27T13:34:38Z","datePublished":"1952-06-01T04:00:00Z","hasMeter":false,"primaryChannel":null,"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"Let's Go","issue":{"url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc/1952/06/","issueName":"June 1952","__typename":"MagazineIssue","slug":"195206"},"editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/642797/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/06/lets-go/642797/","syndication":"NONE","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[],"watsonInfo":null,"slug":"lets-go","grapeshot":{"segments":[],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"},"isArchive":true}}

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