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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LYDIA PUCKETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS

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First Line: KNOWLT HOHEIMER RAN AWAY TO THE WAR
Last Line: BACK OF EVERY SOLDIER IS A WOMAN.

KNOWLT HOHEIMER ran away to the war
The day before Curl Trenary
Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett
For stealing hogs.
But that's not the reason he turned a soldier.
He caught me running with Lucius Atherton.
We quarreled and I told him never again
To cross my path.
Then he stole the hogs and went to the war --
Back of every soldier is a woman.



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