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HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER by PHILIP LEVINE

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First Line: MY OLDEST SON COMES TO VISIT ME
Last Line: behind the sad brown sacks of peonies
Subject(s): HOSPITALS; SICKNESS; ILLNESS;
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