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NANCY JANE by CHARLES SIMIC

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First Line: GRANDMA LAUGHING ON HER DEATHBED.
Last Line: Or like a wheel breaking off a car / And roaming the world on its own
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
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