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THE SWEATER by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: NOW THE ORCHID'S PINNED, AND HE LETS GO SLACK
Last Line: AND A CORPSE OR TWO IN HIS BUTTONHOLE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
NOW the orchid's pinned, and he lets go slack
In a blood-coloured car his rottening soul,
With a sealskin graveyard upon his back,
And a corpse or two in his buttonhole.



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